Art and Magic
A RECENT letter to The Listener praising the BBC The Goose Girl said "the production proved that a good fairy tale can be a work of art." Perhaps few would dispute this, but, if anyone does, the BBC The Magic Ear of Corn should help to confute him. I was fascinated by this story, and when the play was over, and the spell broken, I wondered what had given it its particular compulsion. I décided it was the intense realism of atmosphere, the high quality of the acting, notably Felix Felton’s Enchanter, and the poetic
ll % f touches, as when the court is described-all blended to provoke that. essential suspension of disbelief. This. play represents a unique form, the adult fairy-tale, in which, I feel, only the
BBC could succeed.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 11
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135Art and Magic New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 11
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