Great Drama
ARIA DRONKE is well { known for her dramatic readings and productions | in Wellington repertory circles. Listeners will be able to hear some of her impressions of great drama in a series of illustrated lectures to be broadcast by 2YC starting next Wednesday. The series covers the history of
drama from ancient Greece to the present day, and in addition to tracing the development of the major dramatic forms and the part played by the great dramatists, the lectures include readings of some of drama’s greatest scenes, selected and produced under Mrs. Dronke’s guiding hand. The first lecture, which will be heard from 2YC at 8.25 p.m. on April 8, deals in the main with Greek drama and its origin in primitive religious rituals. In succeeding talks Mrs. Dronke discusses the English miracle and morality plays, Elizabethan drama and Shakespeare, Restoration comedy, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Chekhov, and modern drama from the 1920’s onwards. Extracts are from such typical plays as Endimion, Doctor Faustus, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, The Master Builder, The Dream Play, the Cherry Orchard, The Playboy of the Western World, No Exit, and The Lady’s Not | For Burning.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 17
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193Great Drama New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 17
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