Inspired Farce
| HAVEN'T laughed so much since TIFH stopped as I did at "The Man Who Didn't Know How to Shudder." The scene where the young hero hypnotises the hell-hound in the haunted castle (by shining his torch in its eyes and telling it its hind legs are feeling very, very heavy) and, once hypnotised, fills it with post-hypnotic suggestions for performing simple domestic chores, was farce at its most inspired. But what chiefly delighted was the satisfying emtrace between material and mediumthe irresponsible playfulness of the story would have been unexploited in print and frightened out of existence in a stage production. One could perhaps accuse author Lawrence Kitchen of burning the Grimm material at both ends, but he gave us something lovely and :
light.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 11
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128Inspired Farce New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 11
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