Strutting Players
"MEMORIES of the Old Vic-A Story of London’s Famous Theatre," was definitely a story rather than the story, a brochure rather than a_ short history, and told with an undramatic disregard of dramatic light and shade. But the illustrations made it memorable. I should think Maurice Evans’s Macbeth as near as we are likely to get to Sir Henry Irving, though we
were left in doubt as to whether this was intentional. It was perhaps unfor-. tunate that the excerpt from Romeo and Juliet should have come immediately after a reference to CEMA, which was bound to ring a glockenspiel for anyone familiar with Harlequinade. But the extracts from A Midsummer Night's Dream were delightful, and had the merit, for the New Zealand listener, of enabling him to renew his memories not of the Old Vic itself but of a production by one of what the programme refers to as "new roots and flowers from the ruined trunk."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 11
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160Strutting Players New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 788, 27 August 1954, Page 11
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