CRISTOPHER FRY'S PLAY
Sir,-~-Bruce Mason’s criticism of the New Zealand Players production of The Lady’s Not for Burning was an excellently contrived piece: spoilt by its lack of balance and his attempt to ‘out-Fry Fry in words. Why should he deal with only the two leading players? One can only assume he thought the others not worth mentioning. However, may I say that The Listener and the Broadcasting Service in my opinion are at least the
only sources of regular informed criticism of the arts we have, and I venture to suggest they could both improve on what they are doing by providing more, to balance the inherent complacency I find in New Zealand. The broadcast discussion of the same play was spoilt by being too short. The two well-informed speakers appeared to be flitting from point to point in order to cover the play ‘in such short time that it was scarcely fair on either the speakers or the play and players. Why not longer time, and why not the same criticism of music, orchestral or otherwise? We
need it.
CRITICISM
PLEASE
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 813, 25 February 1955, Page 5
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184CRISTOPHER FRY'S PLAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 813, 25 February 1955, Page 5
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