Out of the Groove
VERY much enjoyed O. A. Gillespie’s adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s The Creative Impulse, produced by John Thomson (1YA). I have never been a Maugham fan, and have passed from the stage when I couldn’t read his stories twice to the stagé when I can’t even read them once. But the playing of this piece was very nicely done indeed. Molly Donald as Mrs. Forrester and Herbert Hodge as her husband, who revolts against the life of her literary salon and elopes with the cook, made both characters sound as if they had been created by Henry James rather than by the fashionable modern ironist. May Lovatt rather over-did the Cockney accent of Mrs. Bulfinch, the cook, making Albert’s elopement less probable than it is, but otherwise gave a lively performance, and the twittering sycophants of the salon were well characterised by familiar voices. I haven’t heard a production of John Thomson’s before, but this was fresh enough to make me want to hear more, for new producers, as well as new voices, are essential to get NZBS plays out of the present deepening groove.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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188Out of the Groove New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 10
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