Strong Meat
G ATHERING STORM, by Reyner Barton, was a good solid meaty play interpreted by a thoroughly adequate cast, and so full of thunderous human emotion that it scarcely seemed to need the extra rumblings of sound effects. A résumé of the plot would sound dismayingly Starkadder-the old old story of a man’s savage hunger for the land and for a girl incapable of sharing it, the, aged scripture-quoting grandmother and the half-witted younger brother. But convincing, powerfui, and, in spite of its determined rurality, very close to the listener. And particularly memorable for the superb playing of Frankie by John Schlesinger, who succeeded in the very difficult task of conveying Frankie’s lovableness_ enhanced rather than tainted by his subnormality.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 11
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123Strong Meat New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 11
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