Encircled by Scenery
"M glad I caught up with Ruth Park’s One Man’s Kingdom, though this was not, I felt, Miss Park at her best. Her usual talent for dramatising the background of her characters to intensify our compassion for them seemed heré a little over used-her pioneer couple (1900 to 1920) would have been more Convincing fifty years earlier. One had the feeling that Miss Park was giving it all she had, which was sometimes a bit more than we were prepared to take, Then, too, the writer’s gift for vigorous and indelible description was sometimes used at the expense of the dramatic action, so that the struggling couple were often dwarfed by- being forced to exist encircled by scenery. The play had its share of excitement-the crowd scenes at the beginning and the scene at the logging camp where Lachlan literally pulls the villain’s. house about his ears-but I was never able to feel in my bones that this was my country and these my people. Women in Action WO recent radio discussions have delighted me by providing evidence of the demise of the Little Woman. In the (continued on next page)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 798, 5 November 1954, Page 10
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194Encircled by Scenery New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 798, 5 November 1954, Page 10
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