Less Than Lifelike
| FOUND the BBC version of The Linden Tree something of a disappointment. The radio adapter showed far too wholesome a respect for Priestley’s orig-inal,-confining his action rather drearily to Professor Linden’s study, and in spite of the close family atmosphere of the piece it never generated for me any of the warm closeness to life that I found in It Always Rains on Sunday. Intimacy is all very well, but one needs some solid drama to sustain it, and the dramatic conflicts in the play scarcely reached real life proportions-lIsabel’s desertion of her husband after 37 years of marriage on such trivial grounds seemed unconvincing!y unwifely, and we were permitted only a jash-card glimpse of Jean’s unhappy love affair which, uncorked, might have provided some of the raw spirit of emotion necessary to accompany the intéliectual soda-water of the dialogue. And if musical bridgework must be provided in a radio play surely in this case sometning more appropriate to the theme could have been chosen than gallant but overworked Greensleeves?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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173Less Than Lifelike New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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