Potted Sheridan
WAS surprised to see that the title of one of 4ZB’s Playhouse of Fayourites was School for Scandal, and when I realised that this was an adaptation of the original Sheridan play I didn’t know whether to be pleased or regretful, Afterwards I made a mental tabulation. Points for: the play was very well done indeed, the period atmosphere was sustained, ‘the necessary adaptation would not have disturbed anyone who didn’t know the play, and the fact of introducing Sheridan into any radio programme is a thing to be commended. Main points against: the crushing of a full length play into a bare half-hour, which necessitated the use of the old seryant as a narrator of events, and resulted in the cutting of many passages that ought to be heard in full if the best is to be got out of the play. Conclusion: in spite of the "potting" of the play, it was worth doing and worth hearing, but why couldn’t those responsible for it have been really generous, and given the whole thing as a sort of short serial, in, say, four instalments of half-an-hour each? SS SS
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 19
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192Potted Sheridan New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 19
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