The Dark Flowers
FTER listening to the NZBS production of Jean Anouilh’s Point of Departure over 3YC, I must now place it among those plays which have left a deep and lasting impression on me. The NZBS cast, too, did not fail to do justice to a work that it might be considered an honour to act in. Where the significant question was asked of the unsuspecting, the pause in the response -as though the person questioned was checking his watch garefully — gave it the proper weight with the listener who knew that at that point in time Eurydice had already been killed. The way
we gained a double portrait of Eurydice as she appeared to Orpheus, and, as she was sketched in as his mistress by the coarse, pudgy impresario, was masterly both in the script and in the interpretation. In every question and answer in that station waiting-room I thought I heard the wind rustling through the dark flowers of the underworld. After the spate of novels, films and plays lost in cynicism it was wonderful and refreshing to find a modern French playwright handling anew, and lifting as he did so, ancient questions concerning the meaning of beauty, love.
loyalty and death,
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 10
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206The Dark Flowers New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 10
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