Skipping the Centuries
|F for some reason the emotional curtent linking actors and audience fails, then no matter how high the dramatic voltage of a play, the audience will remain detached. I got considerable pleasure (perverted if you like) from observing from a safe distance the emotional wear and tear on hero Peter Standish in the NZBS version of Balderstone’s Berkeley Square. It was no fault of the NZBS that the thing failed to convince; it would have taken a Rider Haggard to solve the dilemma of a person who falls in love out of his century in defiance of the facts of history; but my non-participation left me regrettably free to note lesser technical faults in the production, such as the lack of ease exhibited by some of the minor characters, and the unnecessarily noisy gearshift from 20th*Century to 18th.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 13
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141Skipping the Centuries New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 13
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