NEW NZBS PLAYS
MANY of us have at one time or another had the strange uneasy feeling that we are familiar with a place we are visiting for the first time. It seldom gets further than that, but for a group of people who were visiting the Black Bull Inn, Grindle Moor, in North Yorkshire, one night it turned into a crisis which changed their lives. It was different for them because one of the guests was Dr. Gortler, a German refugee who believed ‘that we repeat our lives with some differences over and over again, and had developed a method of changing the focus: of his attention so that he could drift away from the present.. The story of the strange happenings that night is told in I Have Been Here Before, a play by J. B. Priestley; which will be heard in an NZBS production from 1YC at
9.30 pim. on Saturday, April 17, and later from other National stations. The play is one of two-both written in 1937-in which Mr. Priestley used the widely-discussed time theories of J. W. Dunne. The NZBS version has a cast from the New Zealand Players, and is produced by John Carson-Parker. I Have Been Here Before is one of three new NZBS plays of special interest to be broadcast for the first time next" week. The second is Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s story of the way in which Maxim de Winter and his young bride were haunted by his dead wife, Rebecca. This will be heard from 2YA at 9.54 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. The third play, The Youtig Mrs. Barrington, by Warren Chetham-Strode, is about the difficulties of a young married couple in getting to know one another again after the war has kept them apert for four years. This will be heard from 2YZ at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 13. Rebecca and The Young Mrs. Barrington were produced by Bernard Béeby.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 8
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324NEW NZBS PLAYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 8
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