The Time Factor
HAVE always liked J. B. Priestley’s I Have Been Here Before, preferring it to his other time-plays where the pyrotechnics of his juggling with the time factor tend to dim the players and the human situation. The NZBS production, with a cast drawn from the New Zealand Players, could not have been better, and the excellent acting so "brought up" the human situation that even the stolid believer in a separate past, present and future would have found the play sufficiently dramatic. And seldom have I heard a play reach its climax with such a satisfying impact. The moment when Walter Ormond breaks away from his predestined circle of existence and "moves out on a new time track" sounded in our ears like a major chord, resolving in most satisfying fashion the two notes of freewill and
predestination,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 10
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143The Time Factor New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 10
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