Symbols and Choruses
| ISTENING to Professor Isaac’s dis- | criminating and» leisurely talks, Twentieth Century Theatre, heard over 3YA, I thought it unlikely that I would have understood the expressionist plays if I had only read them instead of | hearing the competent extracts given in ‘the talks. Indeed, nowhere more than here have I been more aware of the meaning of our insularity. I see that a tide has flowed and ebbed and all I can know of it is through the rich deposit it has left in the mind of one who understood what the plays were about. Twice Professor Isaacs referred to the future of this kind of play in tadio. Certainly the use of symbols rather than people, the introduction of choruses, and the intonation of ghostly voices, lends itself much more readily to radio techniques which do not have to grapple with visual realism. Radio can extend and intensify the meaning of sound so much that the loss of vision is swallowed up in the triumph of a new art still hardly aware of its own potentialities.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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181Symbols and Choruses New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 10
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