Familiar Theme
[TS_A CERT, by Charles Yatton (1YC), was the first of the newer plays produced in the Auckland studios
to come my way. I thought it a sound job, save that the pace of Earl Rowell’s production was not quite brisk enough to jolt a rather pedestrian script into life. It was pleasant to hear several new, or at least, not so familiar, voices blending with those of veterans in this play. Good performances came from,-in particular, Barry. Linehan as a smattaleck journalist, and Elizabeth Prendergast as a girl with the clairvoyant ability to predict winning horses for a newspaper column. But the story itself was a rather feeble rehash: of a theme exploited many times before, most successfully, perhaps, in Three Men pon a Horse, and the final "gimmick" cast its broad shadow too early in the piece. Hardly "1YC material," in any case, I think. As someone said to me recently, "Why does the NZBS produce so many third-rate BBC scripts, when there are lots of New Zealand writers around?" -which, though ambiguous, I’m sure, was kindly meant.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 10
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183Familiar Theme New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 790, 10 September 1954, Page 10
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