Off the Target
REMEMBER being told by both Ngaio Marsh and John Casson that the Theatre expects you, the audience, to contribute your bit, to the success of the entertainment, But with a _ radio play you’re excused-you can sit back and expect to be entertained. My recent experience of NZBS plays has led me to expect to be entertained rather well, so that I found myself jarred by a lack of ,technical finish in the production of the recent. play,-The Touch of Silk. The players with Australian accents seemed incapable of flattening their vowels without flattening their reactions, and the heroine was saddled with a Fifi from-gay-Paree accent which roused in the audience unseemly expectation of farce. The play had a wealth of tragic material-drought, financial ruin, in-law trouble, manslaughter, sadness, misalliance but somehow the whole thing
fell short,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 11
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141Off the Target New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 743, 9 October 1953, Page 11
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