Orchid for Lord Tennyson
THOUGHT the BBC quite unnecessarily apologetic about their presentation of Tennyson’s Queen Mary, or | was it our own NZBS, victim like my-
self of the Tennysohian twilight in vogue from the twenties on, who prefaced the play with Hallam Tennyson’s remark "It lacks dramatic force’? The » broadcast version had, I thought, plenty of this desirable quality, though I am not familiar enough with the original to ‘say whether there was sufficient to last out the two-and-a-half hours’ playing time of the full-length production. Queen Mary seemed to me to provide a complete refutation of all the namby-pam-byism attributed to Tennyson by those who have not read him. There was almost brutal realism in Joan Cross’s playing of the dying Mary-the distorted speech of the stricken woman "old, miserable, diseased, incapable of children." And many a memorable phrase came from the firm and confident lips of Elizabeth (a fine acting part), Her life, Has like a brief and bitter winter's day Gone narrowing to its end, and the final epitaph, Her life was winter, for her spring was nipt, And she loved much, Pray God she
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 12
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192Orchid for Lord Tennyson New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 12
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