North Country Accent
HE New Zealand artist may be caught in the familiar cultural dilemma, but the New Zealand consumer is in the happy position of getting his culture coming and going. Last week I heard a very enjoyable performance of Priestley’s When We Are Married by an NZBS cast, A third-generation New Zealander, I am still sufficiently close to transplanting from British soil to feel a kinship with that North Country accent, and the richly comic situation is equally valid here or there. But there was food for thought in the fact that the locale of this New Zealand production was so convincing that it could equally well have come from BBC Regional. Granted the diffusive effect of radio is it too late, rather than too early, for us to produce a typically New Zealand culture? Or will our triumph come when we can hear a BBC production of a New Zealand play written for an Auckland
accent?r
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 10
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161North Country Accent New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 10
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