The Heart Bowed Down
Now that the leviathans of World Theatre have left our welcoming | shores their berths have been re-occu-pied by the usual collection of, battered and invincibly romantic coasters, returning after a leisurely voyage round other New Zealand stations. Victor Andrews’s Pheasants For Four was a typical example. Based on the fallacy that the drama-starved New Zealand listener is ready at all seasons of the year to swallow White Christmases and spectres as wedded to time as the nine o’clock pips, the play can scarcely have evoked, even at first hearing, that sense of personal involvement which is essential to dramatic appreciation. A BBC translation of Georges Blanc’s Classified Ads, on Monday, seemed to me a happier augury for the listening week, and I plunged into it eagerly, only to find that Part I. of the piece had been broadcast four weeks previously. I blush now to think how I carped at the intrusion of the Nine O’clock News into the first World Theatre series or as much as mentioned that Othello came to us in nightly parts.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 632, 10 August 1951, Page 11
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182The Heart Bowed Down New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 632, 10 August 1951, Page 11
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