Through Pilate's Eyes
NY play based on the Passion has a| hard task ahead of it. Embroidery of the Gospel narrative may seem meretricious or presumptuous-the familiar words, hallowed by centuries of Easter hearing, seem to have gathered to themselves all necessary emotional overtones. The usual course, followed by the play Caesar’s Friend, is to concentrate on some character off-centre, in this ead Pilate-and feel through him the impacts of events. In this respect the play | was remarkably successful. It is a regrettable fact for the dramatist, however, that a broadcast play, no matter what its merits, cannot compete as a spiritual and emotional experience with the musical expression of the same theme, and it must have come as an anti-climax to such listening as Bach’s | St. John Passion, grandly broadcast by 2YC on the two previous evenings.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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138Through Pilate's Eyes New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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