History of the Theatre
"THE History of the Theatre in Ancient Greece" may sound a rather forbidding title for the first of the 4YA Winter Course talks on the history of the theatre in general; but Professor T. D. Adams made the subject compellingly interesting. It was no dusty talk on erudite aspects of ancient dramatic forms, but a living presentation of the drama itself, with the factual arguments about plays and playwrights interspersed with plentiful extracts from the
works concerned. After all, what the modern listener wants to know about an ancient play is not so much the history moral, social, and political, of its conception in the. brain of its author, but rather how it sounded to the audience of the day, and how it will sound to an audience of our own day. Since the majority of radio listeners are not ardent Greek scholars, it would be of little use * to present Greek plays as they sounded to their original audiences; but a welltrained chorus and a few individual players, such as those heard in these extracts, ean do wonders with the poetry of a good translation. The unique effect of the authentic chorus is one that the tadio can reproduce to perfection when the words are articulated as clearly and musically as on this occasion.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 12
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219History of the Theatre New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 12
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