Light of Asia
‘HE NZBS production of Clifford Bax’s The Buddha (1YC) was both different and very much worth while. Less a play than: a kind of documentary, it attempted to dramatise the life of Buddha and to expound the elements of his philosophy. In the first, it was completely successful, and Allen Rowe made the great teacher a distinguished and compelling figure, But, despite Bax’s preliminary explanation of his endeavour to remove false ideas about Buddhism, I felt the programme was only partially successful in its second aim, leaving the inner centre of the creed as remote from me as before.
One or two passages, also, struck a false note in an otherwise austere context, such as the Buddha’s wife saying, "You | belong to humanity, not to me," which just didn’t sound right, William Austin’s production and the recording were in the best NZBS manner, save that in the crucial dialogue of the Buddha with himself, it seemed that one of the voices had been too lightly recorded, making the argument as difficult to follow with the ear as with the mind.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 11
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183Light of Asia New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 11
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