Play Without An End
HE competent production of Mark Warburton’s Career, a play by Charles Hatton, kept me listening with more interest than usual. The NZBS made the most of its opportunities, and the development of character and increasing age were convincingly conveyed. Yet this turned out to be an extraordinary
play, for it had no end. The story was conventional--that of an unscrupulous man with a lust for power — and developed in a conventiona] manner. The obvious, and most satisfactory, ending would be I suppose for the villain to taste the dust and ashes of his success; another variation, for him to go on grinding faces with aplomb. But neither happened, and the play ended on the unusual note of an echo saying: "Democracy is the refuge of the weak." Outrageous echo, not to be caught and examined by one of Senator McCarthy’s kin! Nobody answered the echo, for time was up. For once I should have been delighted to be invited to tune in to the next exciting episode telling of the downfall of a villain, wjth its hoped-for
catharsis.
Loquax
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 11
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183Play Without An End New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 11
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