Cold Outside
RANTED that in every life some rain must fall, but it isn’t often I get quite as much snow with my listening as I did this week, with Theatre Royal’s Outcasts of Poker Flat, and a BBC play The Snow is a Shroud. I confess the Bret Harte dramatisation left me cold, not unnaturally in view of the violence of its atmospherics-the tragedy seemed like something from long ago curiously preserved in a snowdrift and revealed to latter-day eyes rather than something of immediate impact. The Snow is a Shroud, on the other hand, had immediacy and relevance for us. Its snow fell purposefully but quietly, a potent force in the action, but not so ‘obviously bent on upstaging the actors. But I am puzzled by the title. This is a play concerned with the triumph of liberal good over totalitarian evil, and the snow acts as deus ex machina rather than undertaker. But what’s in a name? The nlav’« the thing. and in this case a
very good thing.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 10
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174Cold Outside New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 10
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