Levels of Intensity
HE dead level of intensity maintained by Madame Dronke in her 3YA talks on Aspects of Great Drama tended to make it all a most heaftbreaking affair, as though we in our vegetating age had betrayed the great world of Shakespeare and Aeschylus. This intensity is all the more surprising in one who, acting in the excerpts from the plays, really did modulate her voice
according to the feeling she had to transmit, As the talks went on, though, Madame Dronke’s knowledge and the chosen excerpts began to make an impression on me. A true child of the age, I found myself eager to hear the discussion on O'Neill, Eliot, Fry and yf ern continental playwrights, Of: the last, the two excerpts taken from Sartre, I think, and from the didactic German playwright left me wishing we could hear mbore. The moralistic German author in particular came through terrifyingly, both with the marching of feet symbolising the fanatical waves of Nazism and the chorus-like refrain of the wife telling her husband in a lacklustre voice not to ask difficult questions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 10
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183Levels of Intensity New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 10
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