The Arts Reviewed
W E may have comparatively little culture in New Zealand; it may be spread thin; but thanks to broadcasting it is certainly spread evenly. Last Friday I listened to the fortnightly Arts Review, which included remarks on the Auckland Festival by J. C. Reid. On Saturday night I was able to form my
own opinion of two of the Festival performers by heating Jan Smeterlin in a_ studio recital from 2YA and Andrew Gold in a Wellington performance of Judas Maccabaeus. In the same fortnightly Review was a review of the Players’ performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Russell Reid and | Mary Mackenzie, the | latter a performer in the Festival Wild Duck (seen earlier by Wellington audiences), praised | by J. C. Reid in the same programme. The next Sunday promises the pleasure of cultural rumination to those of us who saw the Stratford Company’s As You Like It, since the same _ star will play in the BBC . World Theatre version. It’s all very intime and there’s the pleasure of many a satisfying crunch, since a reviewer Or per- | former can_ scarcely | avoid putting his foot on — someone’s preconceived |
idea.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 11
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195The Arts Reviewed New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 11
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