Rare Experience
7ROM the opening two lines of the play, with Masha’s bitter riposte to her suitor, "I wear black because I am) in mourning-for my life!’ to the final moment-the doctor’s announcement (shocking after our supposed reprieve) | of the death of Constantine, the BBC version of The Seagull was crisp, unfaltering, and almost devastating in attack. The play seemed to have suffered a minimum of adaptation. So distinct were Chekhov's characters, so firm their playing by the entire cast, that one was never in doubt about the speaker, or even the persons present. -Chekhov seemed, too, to show a remarkable lack of dependence on décor by putting so much of the mood and actual appearance of his settings into his dialogue. And how I relished the sardonic humour that could send the bailiff and his horses trampling so near precincts sacred to breaking hearts! A rare experience-and I. must also acknowledge my gratitude to the BBC for my fourth radio variant of Turgenev (this time last two syllables
as in jennifer).
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 795, 15 October 1954, Page 11
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174Rare Experience New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 795, 15 October 1954, Page 11
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