THE INNER CIRCLE
AN EXPERIENCE OF CRITICS, by Christopher Fry; Perpetua. English price, 7/6. 7EELING, he said, like a fourth-form boy who has been invited up to the masters’ common-room to comment on the year’s teaching, Mr. Fry addressed the Critics’ Circle on the subject which gives this book its title. For one somewhat overwhelmed by the privilegeone who had taken the precaution of folding copies of all the newspapers into the seat of his trousers, the dramatic criticism ‘outwards--he gives a remarkably good account of himself, whether discussing an artist’s sensitiveness to criticism or defending himself against the charge of verbal intoxication. In-
toxicated with words he may not be, but how delightfully he uses them! And how one wants to quote him! But that isn’t all. When Mr. Fry has done, someone (Kaye Webb, one supposes, since she edits the book) asked eight of the best-known English critics to comment on the address and to give their approach to dramatic criticism; Alec Guinness wrote a prologue; and Ronald Searle drew some pictures. The result is not only of the inevitable kind: for here besides wit is much good sense -wisdom, even-and, surprisingly, not
a littie humity.
F.A.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 732, 24 July 1953, Page 13
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