DROUGHT IN DRAMA?
AST year we suffered from a chronic shortage of new NZBS plays. It looks as if the situation is going to continue in 1955. During the last three weeks there has not been one new NZBS production broadcast from Atckland National statiotis. The thtee repeats ratiged from the good to the indiffer-ent-The Amazing Doctor Clittethouse, now rather shop-worn; The Shadow of the Tree, a gloomy piece about neurotics; and the three-years-old Browning Version, with Frederick Fafley sadly miséast as Crocker-Harris. I have no Objection to repeats when they supplement fresh matetial. But this period’s fiew plays wete both World Theatre jobs. The NZBS Drama division has been going long enough and has a high enough standard to be able, surely, to keep up a reasonable flow of new productions. It is, too, a long time since we have heard a radio play written by a New Zealander, from 1YA and 1YC. Ate tadio dtamatists, I wonder, actively sought for, encotitaged, and, perhaps more to the point, adequately paid?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 813, 25 February 1955, Page 10
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171DROUGHT IN DRAMA? New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 813, 25 February 1955, Page 10
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