A Different Triangle
"\ JHAT does 2 man want when he’s in love with two women at once? Both of them!" With this unequivocal statement coming from the hero’s lips in the first few minutes of a play, it would be a dull listener who wouldn’t sit up and ask for more. C. Gordon Glover, in this play from 4ZB, O.U.T, Spells Out, certainly provides plenty more, and rings a change on the usual triangular plot. which it would spoil a prospective listener’s enjoyment to reveal. The macabre element is dealt with in thoroughly macabre fashion, and yet succeeds in sounding thoroughly credible -due not only to the playwright but to the actors. I was pleased to hear the ‘names of the cast read out after the play, and look forward to familiarising myself with the voices of the NZBS production unit, who made an excellent job of this play. It is refreshing to find a playwright able to make the eternal triangle completely understandable. He succeeded in the difficult job of making both women attractive and lovable and only the very puritanical listener will fail to commiserate the luckless hero in his half-hearted attempts to decide between his two loves.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 10
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200A Different Triangle New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 10
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