Getting Rid of Them
AM continually amazed that so pro- ~ lific a playwright as C, Gordon Glover should be able to hit the jackpot so often. O-U-T Speitls Out is much less arty than the other Glover plays I have heard, so that one is denied the intellectual uplift that results from groping one’s way through a*luminous fog of whispered free verse. However, the entertainment value is just as_ high. Once again we have as central character the eligible young man, Helen-ridden rather than hag-ridden by a superfluity of past and present loves. But this time it’s comedy, and the superfluous are removed at their own request to the satisfaction of all concerned. Noting the ease with which Mr. Glover uses the whispered voice hissing from the past to spur his hero to the necessary action I could almost wish Shakespeare were living at, this hour, if only ‘to know the joy of being able to dispense with Hamlet’s father’s ghost.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 9
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161Getting Rid of Them New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 9
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