Expecting Too Much?
NE of the 4ZB features to which I usually listen is the Sunday evening NZBS play. But I was disappointed in No Flowers for Carmen. Appropriate (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous; page) as its theme may be at present for New Zealand audiences, and familiar as the incidental music may sound, the play itself seemed to fall a little flat. Possibly this was due to familiarity, the scene having been presented to us rather often in different ways. Backstage scenes, temperamental prima donnas, suggested attempts at murder, presentation of likely suspects, all have @ too-familiar appeal. It is very difficult to follow in the footsteps of so many writers on these themes and produce something really new. Credit must be given the playwright that the solution of the mystery was not what the listener had anticipated; but it was expecting great credulity in the listener, surely, to make the core of the solution depend on the accuracy of a fortuneteller’s prophecy. But we, perhaps expect too much from. the NZBS dramatic group. They do this sort of thing so well, and have given us so many really top-notch plays, that any slight departure from the standard is disappointing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 13
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205Expecting Too Much? New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 13
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