Allegory Non Allegro
WAS disappointed with Ursula Bloom’s Displaced Persons which I heard the Sunday before Christmas from 2YC. The action-of the whole play moved in a fog of confused atmospherics, which, while it undoubtedly heightened the emotional effect, contributed so much to the obscurity that the emotions roused were dissipated for want of a suitable channel. I find myself sufficiently at sea in, the flesh-and-blood production of an allegorical theme, when by referring to a printed programme I can find out that a certain female figure misted in grey tulle represents Grief. but I am no Joan of Arc, to hear voices and at one hearing grasp their vital significance. Furthermore the nativity parallel was stretched so tightly to cover
this modern interpretation that the bathetic sound of rending material could sometimes be heard. (I thought the toolshed, alternatively referred to as the out. house, a case in point.) And finally, though the events of to-day may tempt us to believe that we have got nowhere in two thousand years of Christianity, the suggestion that the generation now being born must redeem the world (if it can) can scarcely be regarded as in keeping with the Festive Spirit. I was only saved from acute melancholia by the fact that 2YC’s orchestral programme plunged me _ straight into Haydn’s Uninhabited Island Overture.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 446, 9 January 1948, Page 12
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