NEW ZEALAND PLAYS
Sir,-By all the signs it should not be long now before Nev’ Zealand .begins seriously to consider a National Theatre. It is reported that Sir Laurence Olivier suggested the importance of ’ having national playwrights as well-not in those words, but that seemed to be his mtaning. Tee or Is there in any of the four main centres, any person or group of persons not only competent, but willing to criticise a full-length play by a New Zealand writer; and then if the play merits preduction, able and willing to advise the writer of a company which would consider putting it on? Do the éstablished drama companies welcome and consider any work submitted to» them? Or is it only a play by @ recognised overseas playwright which «has any chance of production? I am not speaking of radio plays or of one-act plays, but of serious full-length dramas. These may seem simple: questions easily answered to those who live in a city and are connected with dramatic clubs. But to the writer who. is compelled to live in the country. with no personal contact with other writers (The Listener is an invaluable impersonal one) they are not so simple, And I should be very grateful if anyone who is in a position to answer these questions would be kind enough to do so.
INTERESTED
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 5
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227NEW ZEALAND PLAYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 5
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