Plays on Sundays
HE 1YA Sunday afternoon play is logically enough placed, as no other afternoon in the week is likely to provide a larger audience for such a feature. But I’m glad that National Orchestra programmes have recently pushed the drama starting-time from 2.0 @ $.0; by the later hour one can be reasonably sure that dinner will be over, and clattering dishes silenced. So far, only old plays have been re-presented; and J still doggedly hope to hear new material, or,
‘ at least a re-play of Moby Dick (which I regard as the high point of NZBS production), or of The Fire on the Snow, instead of the very "ordinary" scripts we've been hearing. .Last.. Sunday’s Ladies in Retirement seemed more impressive on the stage than on the radio, although this gloomy piece of feminine Grand Guignol was done as well as the writing allowed. Perhaps I’ve heard too many plays recently, for I find myself saying, "So what?" after most of them. Poor as the average stage play is these days, the average radio play is even poorer in content and significance. —
J. C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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187Plays on Sundays New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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