"Unkindest Ending"
T is certainly not a commentator’s job to warn people off radio programmes, but perhaps I am still smarting under the knowledge that I was, to put it mildly, blown up the garden path. I should have known right from the start. The title-"An Ill Wind Blew"-seemeg
a normal enough title for a play, but in the light of later events it became the diabolical warning of an oracle. I should have switched off then and there. But I know I wouldn’t-I would still ‘have sat there in an agony of self-tor-ture waiting for the inevitable end. As it was, it caught me unprepared, waiting in pleased anticipation for the Gordian knot to be untied. Listeners who have heard the play will sympathise: it would have been entirely in keeping if at the conclusion 3YA’s announcer had said triumphantly, ."Fooled you that time!" Listeners who have not heard it are hereby recommended to adopt their most cynical attitude towards the whole thing. Otherwise they, too, will be smarting under the lash of the unkindest ending any playwright ever devised for the torment of his audiences. Mr. Tyndall, the bouquet is yours -you win!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 11
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195"Unkindest Ending" New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 11
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