Two Good Plays
‘Two good plays this week-a feast for one who has been picking dry shreds from NZBS old bones and eating BBC cottage-pie. Emlyn Williams’s Spring, 1600, a quite engaging piece of whimsy about Burbage, the Lord Chamberlain’s Company and a determined lass who disguises herself as a boy player (so that she is a girl playing a boy who (continued on next page)
plays a girl), was given a rattling good production by the NZBS-one of their best efforts this year. Everyone seemed to capture the happy, lusty spirit of the piece, especially Roy Leywood, a very convincing Burbage, and Paddy Turner as the venturesome Ann Byrd, and to sustain it even in the places where Mr. Williams had lost himself in Wardour Street. Another famous stage figure, Ellen Terry, dominated the BBC Mrs. Watts, which told of her marriage, "in name only," at 16, to the painter G. F. Watts, thirty years her senior. Though the play made me feel as I do when I read posthumously published private diaries, it was a striking study of the inevitable collapse of a marriage. Dorothy Gordon transmitted something of the lengendary Terry charm in her superb portrayal of the vivacious, intelli-
gent girl.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 10
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207Two Good Plays New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 10
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