Lost Enchantment
‘HE cast of the NZBS production of The Enchanted Cottage put up a gallant 80-minute fight and finally went down with colours flying. The fault was mostly Pinero’s. The playwright has failed to achieve any reconciliation between farce and sentiment, which tend to exist side by side, resenting one another. In this case the situation was further: confused by the heavy hand of the adapter, who decided rather arbitrarily to bring the whole thing up to date by having one hero crippled at Tobruk, and the other blinded at Dunkirk, in blithe disregard of the fact that such farcical characters as the Vicar and his wife, with their seven children and an eighth "hovering between earth and heaven," and the autocratic Mama with her epigrammatical turns are impeccably 19th Century, It says a great deal for the playing of William Austin and Olive Lucius as the two lovers that at the end of the play they managed to salvage some genuine sentiment from the
foundering vessel.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 10
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170Lost Enchantment New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 737, 28 August 1953, Page 10
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