A Sense of Loss
UNING in to Theatre Royal last .week I found myself fobbed off with Movie Cocktails (not as stimulating as its title) and felt a keen sense of loss. For Theatre Royal was more than Sir Laurence Olivier and showmanship; it was the means of bringing to a large audience an extraordinary variety of reputable literary material. Not always first-rate material, not always intrinsically dramatic material, but always something you could get your teeth into. And it had an uncanny knack of turning up with a new version of something halfremembered, perhaps from school reading, like a photographer who produces glossy reproductions to replace old prints from the family album. But the real disadvantage for a session of this type (continued on next page)
was the rigid 25-minute schedule. Minor classics were teased out, major classics compressed, and both tended to lose their classic shape.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 10
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148A Sense of Loss New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 10
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