Report on Drama
EEPING us informed of what is going on elsewhere in New Zealand is fadio’s bread and butter work. It isn’t designed to tickle the palate, it serves up information, not art, but if, for example, you were hungry to hear what had been going on this year in New Zealand dramatic circles, you could make @ very satisfying meal from the report Drama in New Zealand, presented from 4YA on November 25. Beatrice Ashton’s report on Wellington drama was the most interesting, because she spoke so well and because she had the most to chronicle. Other centres may weil envy the obvious vitality of Wellington drama with the range and variety of its productions. The reports from the South
seemed dim by comparison. That from Christchurch was largely a_ threnody upon the departure of Ngaio Marsh, and, though Barbara Manton did her best for Dunedin, she hadn’t much to tecord. Several speakers mentioned the box office difficulty which paralyses the good intentions of the big Repertory Societies and tends to produce "highlypolished mediocrity," and all were unanimous that what New Zealand needs in each city is a properly equipped Little Theatre, to cater for smaller groups, producing plays of more limited appeal upon smaller budgets.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 11
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207Report on Drama New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 11
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