Good Production
HE people of Stratford are in the *happy position of being able to compare this year’s production of, say, ‘Antony and Cleopatra, with last year’s
and perhaps even the one before that. We New Zealanders are now almost as well placed; we can compare this year’s She Stoops to Conquer with the one we heard from the BBC some three years ago. I should be inclined to put this year’s ahead of the earlier version, not so much for acting as for production, which was happy without being artful. The impish changes of mood in the music interlacing the play aroused the liveliest expectation, and the repetition of Kate’s haunting little song, "Ah, Me, When Shall I Marry Me," whenever it was necessary to switch the audience from farce to sentiment, was particularly
telling.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 12
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138Good Production New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 760, 12 February 1954, Page 12
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