World Theatre
AFTER Christmas fare one is usually quite glad to go back to bread and butter for a while; but after the Christmas fare of the World Theatre series our daily bread is inclined to turn to ashes in the mouth, I rarely miss a radio play, and in the course of listening to Rostand’s L’Aiglon from 4YA,.turned regretfully to my home station in Christchurch to hear-The Lady from Abroad, by Mabel Constanduros and Howard Age. It was 20 minutes badly spent, and I was glad to have L’Aiglon to return to. But of all this series not ene has, in my opinion, come up to the standard of The Trojan Women, considered solely as a radio production, In ail the others one was conscious of the fact that it was.a radio production, and this applies particularly to Shaw and Ibsen.. But with The Trojan Women one can almost believe that Euripides had a radio audience in mind when he wrote it, so much is gained and so little lost by this form of presentation. It is, however, possible that one cannot regard this work with critical detachment merely because of its success on the air, and it is probably selfdeception to imagine one can. sss nneeeeeeneeeeeee |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 9
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208World Theatre New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 9
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