Figures Near the Cross
ROFESSOR T. W. MANSON’S talks, Steadfastly Towards Jerusalem (from 1YC), which began on the Monday and ended on the Friday of Holy Week, were well-timed and _ well-pre-sented. Dealing in turn with the various groups, both Jewish and Roman, who /were concerned in the Crucifixion, they recreated the historical picture with clarity and feeling. An. interesting contrast was the play Caesar’s Friend (from -1YC) on the Saturday. Centred on Pilate during the vital 24 hours, it was convincing only up to a point, The plotting Caiaphas was a figure of melodrama, partly carried off by the vigorous treading of Ralph Truman; and Mary Magdalen was little more than a conventional figure. The real difficulty
however, lay with Pilate himself. Obviously much can be done by modernising him into a decent, worried official who bungles a difficult colonial crisis, and has the misfortune to be remembered by history. But at the end of the play, he remained an enigma. Dorothy Sayers went a good deal further with the Pilate of The Man Born To Be a King-"harsh, overbearing, obstinate, decent in a way, but not big enough to smash his way out of a compromising
situation."
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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200Figures Near the Cross New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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