Pursuit of a Judge
FANL from the fact that it had its appointed cast I had no fault to find with The Appointed Time, a beautifullytailored thriller by J. Jefferson Farjeon, which seemed to me to contain just the right amount of psychologig¢al suspense (enough to make you feel slightly shiversome when listening, but not enough to make you shut the wardrobe door before turning out the light). The Appointed Time is a drama of delayed revenge (not so complicated as Hamlet, no emotional snags and less gore) in which Sir James Rigg, a retired judge (aged 78 and therefore close enough to Death to be played by Mr. Beeby) is horribly pursued by one Herbert Boyd, a murderer he has sentenced to death some years previously. I cannot recall a play I have listened to recently that made such good use of the elasticity of time (the minute that seems like an hour or a second), or that managed to allow its chief character so much time for philosophising without slowing up the emotional tempo.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 10
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176Pursuit of a Judge New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 10
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