Moving Experience
ALTHOUGH Eugene O'Neill has been criticised on the score that his plays do not conform to the verse tra(continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) dition in ‘which most of the world’s greatest dramas have been written; the point can become a little academic. At any rate, he has a fine sense of what constitutes the dramatic, and_ his audience is not left hanging around while the playwright moralises on the evils of, say, the welfare state. The words themselves are enthralling enough, too, to make it possible for them to stand almost alone. Twice now I have heard The Emperor Jones, once acted out on a bare stage, and now over 3YC, and each time I have found it a moving experience. Remembering the beat of the tom-tom as it introduced a BBC documentary, I could have wished for a more booming resonance in the background beat. On the other hand, nothing could have been more wonderful than the release of tension conveyed by the change in tempo after the "emperor" had shot himself with the silver bullet. Having imagined, with my usual cursory glance at the programmes, that I ‘was listening to a BBC session, I uttered sounds of appreciation on finding that the cast, led by _ Selwyn Toogood, was a New Zealand
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 10
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220Moving Experience New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 785, 6 August 1954, Page 10
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