Inside the Theatre
PROFESSOR ISAACS’S talks, Twentieth Century Theatre, are thoroughly exhilarating, and I must say I never expected to see the day when a drama critic could refer to the debt the theatre owes the cinema. (He’s quite right in Saying it has made us quicker on the uptake, so that the dramatist can now convey by a single word and a pause what would formerly have taken pages of explanation.) His angle of vision is new, and practical. He discusses, for example, the value of the telephone in speeding modern comedy, and you find yourself evaluating, for the first time, the difference in dramatic voltage between the ring of the telephone and the entrance of servant with salver, Professor Isaacs’s lectures are further enlivened by excerpts from the plays he discusses, so well done that even examples of the second-rate (Mrs. Dane’s Defence) make you grateful for good theatre as well as for good drama.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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157Inside the Theatre New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 10
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