Nice People
|F you enjoy a play with a good plot and heart-warming characters you can’t do better than listen to R. C.
Sherriff’s Miss Mabel, the whole 90 minutes of it. The characters are all nice people (the only nasty one’s dead) and the nicest of all is Miss Mabel herself, played with engaging charm by Sinclair Ronald. How then, you may ask, can we produce that conflict which is the essence of all drama? Miss Mabel manages to, but I'll leave it the author's secret. There are three good climaxes, after the second of which I folded my hands in content and waited for the. dismissal music. When the play continued I suspected the author of letting his plot go off the boil. But I was wrong. There was plenty more thickening to go in, and a most satisfying simmer was maintained. A nourishing and sustaining brew resulted, with a lump or two of moral gristle for those of us who like to chew the fat. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 11
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168Nice People New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 11
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