Two Plays
AVING fallen for the Newer Look in radio drama on Wednesday night with C. Gordon Glover’s: Farewell, Captain Jacoby, I found myself quite ready to go back to the old when it came to. Friday night’s radio version of Riders to the Sea: The two plays formed an ‘interesting contrast, the one making use of all the new techniques of flash-back, detour, bypass, and’ follow-through to tell its story, ahd the other following closely the original text. And both were equally effective in the telling, though as a production Riders to the Sea could have been improved. The sea was not all-pervasive, like Lion it would sometimes roar, sometimes forget its cue. The Heavenly Choir often rushed in where it should have feared to tread. And keening, to the Anglo-Saxon ear, is unconvincing. Yet in spite of this
the play was emotionally and aesthetically valid. In Farewell, Captain Jacoby there was a much closer union between means and ends, and the fine feathers Mr. Glover specialises in were firmly "woven into the plot. This is as close as I haye heard Mr. Glover get to the heart of the aspidistra (the story is set in a Victorian drawing room wherein the supposed Captain Jacoby is courting the girl he loves prior to his incarceration for fraud) and he has a wonderful time rustling the leaves,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 479, 27 August 1948, Page 12
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227Two Plays New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 479, 27 August 1948, Page 12
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