Voyage Without Landfall
| UTH PARK’S play So Early in the Morning (2YA, January 20), based on the life of Abel Tasman, did not succeed in painting any aura of historical ex_citement round its hero’s unlucky head, and we were left feeling glad it was Captain Cook to whom we owe the greater historical voltage. We seemed to spend the greater part of the time floating on a slow-moving river past | banks clothed with luxuriant growth of detail that the historical landmarks were almost overgrown. Nor did /we ever make a satisfactory landfall. _More immediacy would have been given the play if we had started with our one point of contact with Tasman-the discovery of New Zealand-and _ then looked back to find the reasons behind his failure to press on with the exp!‘oration of the new country. As it was, we were left feeling as jilted as in The Seekers-we just happened to supply a bit of the background to the oid, old story of a man, his job and his faithful mate.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 10
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174Voyage Without Landfall New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 10
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