Potted Shakespeare
LAYHOUSE of Favourites, a half‘hour ZB feature, had the temerity to present Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice between 7.0 and 7.30 one Sunday evening. Actually the programme was not such a garbled version of the play as might be imagined, and the difficulty of fitting Shylock’s villainies into half an hour was solved by an ingenious method. We were introduced to Will Shakespeare himself, in the act
of explaining his new play to a circle of actors and. friends) Naturally this enabled the writer of the radio script to put a plain narrative, when required, into the mouth of W.S. himself, whose explanation of the action of the play effectively bridged the gaps between selected scenes. These scenes from The Merchant of Venice were well -_ but the scenes between them, with actors and playwright using such modern terms as "That’s good theatre, Will!" just didn’t ring true-W.S. acted and sounded simply like one more radio announcer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 8
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157Potted Shakespeare New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 8
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