Blood on the Stage
\V HAT E. S. Turner did for the penny e dreadful in Boys Will Be Boys and for advertising in A Shocking History of | Advertising and for social reform in Roads to Ruin is now being done for the Elizabethan Theatre in a series from 2YC on Thursdays which could be called A Shocking History of the Elizabethan Theatre. The introductory talk to the series the previous week was sober and scholarly, and certainly did nothing to prepare me for the ghoulish delights of last week’s "Blood, Blood, Blood," a conducted tour of the meatier bits of Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy. The dramatic excerpts were brilliantly done, and, exposed to the full blast of the tragic downpour, I realised for the first time what it was to be a groundling. H. A. L. Craig, who acts as narrator, has a Canadian accent, which has the considerable advantage of making the programme sound less scholarly while remaining
impeccably so,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 11
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163Blood on the Stage New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 815, 11 March 1955, Page 11
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