STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE
Sir-Miss Judith Terry (Listener, May 8) says that she thinks the coming of Sir Laurence Olivier to New Zealand made history, but that the Stratford-upon-Avon Company’s visit did not. That may be her opinion, but please remember that a lot of us younger people who were old enough to appreciate the Stratford Company’s performances did not see Olivier’s company. For many of us, therefore, if not for older people, the coming of the Stratford Company was a great event in theatrical history. How could Miss Jefford, as Desdemona, be "playing herself into the scene" when she was dead"? It wouldn’t matter what she was really thinking then-to the audience she was just dead, and that was that. As a final point, I don’t see how anyone could possibly liken Anthony Quayle’s performance of Falstaff to a Santa Claus.
BARBARA
EWING
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 5
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143STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 5
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