Diluted Drama
WEEK of plays: Maugham’s The Creative Impulse adapted for radio by O. A. Gillespie, and Henry Reed’s Pytheas, both heard over 3YC-neither of which proved very entertaining. The NZBS production of Maugham’s story was pretty well equal to the work in hand. Possibly it is Maugham’s own fault that, in the scenes involving the servants, the cockney speech was too heavily laid on for my liking. This weakens the irony of a situation in which the husband turns away from his arty wife and her everlasting highbrow parties to the cook. Pytheas, in which | two people discuss a fantasy they are | in the act of creating about a littleknown traveller of the ancient world, points to the weakness of monkeying about on the inside and the outside cf a plot all at once. There was, more- | over, a naive undergraduate enthusiasm | for the questing spirit of man floating | unnecessarily on the surface. Once | really engaged with such things, whether | in play writing or exploring, the selfconscious references drop out as the real object. of the play or the exploration | holds the field of attention.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 9
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186Diluted Drama New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 9
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