Play Without Suspense
"HE low standard of plays chosen for production by the NZBS suggests that the time for some extensive listenerreactions is long overdue. Yet perhaps it is too harsh to suggest that those in charge really like the plays they produce; possibly the dramas ‘we get are produced merely in default of anything better. The players are capable; all the more regrettable, then, to hear them waste their time (and outs) on sorry stuff. The latest effort from 4YA_ consisted of a murder story, which could not be called a thriller because it was dull, and wholly without suspense; nor was it tragedy--just a dreary play that started to run down from its opening scene. The listener knew who had done the murder; and why, and how, and where the body was hidden--another 30 minutes revealed all to the sorrowing father. Nothing revealed to the listener why the NZBS had done it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 11
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154Play Without Suspense New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 11
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