Barrie Fantasy
EARED by the red-hot immediacy of the dramas of Odets and O'Neill we are now perhaps too case-hardened to take public pleasure in the more fanciful fantasies of J. M. Barrie, but in the privacy of the home we can relish him to the full. Last week I heard Rosalind, a delightful bit of frippery about a famous actress who sneaks off once in a while to pose as her own. mother and put her feet up on the comfy couch of middle-age. It’s a play I’ve never seen on the stage, and I can see that most producers would boggle at attempting it, so easily could the illusion be shattered by a too kittenish actress or a too heavy-handed make-up man. But the radio version had Phyllis Neilson-Terry in the name part and no problems of quick-change mechanics, and the gossamer of Barrie’s invention was unimpaired. The play was prefaced by a rather pointless reminiscence of Barrie by Frank Swinnerton-or rather, not so much pointless as pointing in the wrong direction, in this case to the merits of Daisy Ashford’s Little Visitors.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 11
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185Barrie Fantasy New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 11
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