STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE
Sir,-It argues well for live theatre when a young person (Barbara Ewing, Listener, June 5) rises in defence of a visiting drama company. I wish Barbara could have been old enough to have seen the Old Vic Company on its visit here four and a half years ago; she would have had still another exciting experience. She asks "How could Miss Jefford be playing herself into the scene when she was dead, since she was dead?" The answer is a simple matter of dramatic technique. Playing dead, the actor, as well as relaxing his body, empties his mind, for we believe that "thought
comes over.and that an actively functioning brain can be felt by sensitive members of the audience. As a professional critic I always regret having to analyse and sometimes condemn something which the less experienced have appreciated, but since it is the critic’s task to point the way to what is generally accepted as the best, I and my fellows often have to resign ourselves to the indignation of the many.
JUDITH
TERRY
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 5
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178STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 5
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