These Old Shades
E seem to have had quite a run of fantasy-plays in which disembodied spirits, gods, demi-gods, and abstractions have appeared at the microphone. The radio, indeed, would seem an excellent medium for the presentation of such
characters, many of whom might seem less probable appearing on a stage in the too-too-solid flesh. Caligula came / back to life (or rather to earth) in Caligula Objects, a play by Wallace Geoffrey, which was heard fecently from 4YA. I wasnt entirely im-
pressed with the NZBS production unit’s handling of this play. There seemed to be such a confusion of tongues that it was difficult to judge, from the players’ accents, whether the scene of the play should have been Hollywood, London, or just New Zealand; and many of the players over-acted in an endeavour to emphasise the humour. This was a mistake; the play would have been better with under rather than over-emphasis-as witness the careful performance of Caligula, who by only slight ‘changes of inflection succeeded better as a pompous shade than the other actors as live humans.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 10
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180These Old Shades New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 493, 3 December 1948, Page 10
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