Watery Dialogue
ERHAPS I have been spoiled recently by the excellent series of plays from 1YC on Saturday nights. Trial and Error, Moby Dick and the BBC An Inspector Calls made such a. fine sequence that the NZBS production of James Parish’s The Lady Asks for Help went off, not with a bang, but a whimper. This story of a husband who accidentally kills an annoying old flame of his wife, sees his friend arrested for murder, and needlessly gives himself up, might have made a neat fifteenminute piece. Thinned out to an hour with watery dialogue, it resisted the
valiant efforts of a competent cast to make it all sound important. When the plot is so shop-worn, only some "lift" in the language can save a _ Play; the Janguage here was of the you think so?" "No." "Are you sure?" "Yes." variety. Not a very happy choice of script, and definitely not in 1YC classthough it may have the effect of sharpening out. appreciation of the better
offerings:
J. C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 10
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172Watery Dialogue New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 10
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