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"HE BBC vyersion’of Lennox Robinson’s Drama’ at Inish, a comedy of the impact of a band of travelling actors performing Ibsen and Tchekov on an innocent Irish community (1YA) made very acceptable listening. (Surely this piece was once called Is Lite Worth Living?) Beautifully played, Irish accents right, climaxes nicely placed, and a general air of hectic comic emotioneverything in short, comme il faut; and
the result as smooth a comedy as I’ve heard for some time. I couldn't help contrasting it with the only other play I heard last week-an Anthony Armstrong job called Without Witness (1YA) done by the NZBS. This sillier-than-usual whodunit was one of those "But, Inspector, I protest" British drawing-room murder things, wholly predictable, wholly dull, The playing, notably by Selwyn Toogood and Peggy Walker, was quite as good as the script allowed. But why, I wonder, would the NZBS deliberately elect to record such a piece?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 11
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154Significant Contrast New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 11
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