Over-fanciful
EOCADIA, by Jean Anouihl | (ZB Sunday Showcase), was teasing stuff, the candy-floss of fancy most ingeniously spun from a spoonful of musicalcomedy sugar. It had some shrewd wit, largely in the capable hands of Gladys Young as the Duchess, some moments of emotional truth from the lovers; but I felt that on the whole satire, symbolism and poetry tended to be sacrificed to the over-fancifulness of Raymond Raikes’s production. For once I found the Hotchkiss music archly elfin rather than deliciously fey, and the welter of effects did tend to make the fantasy more phantasmagoric and less comprehensible. And those interminable scenes between Amanda and the Duchess before the drama proper got under way roused in me an irritation at the delay more appropriate to the elder Hamlet. But on the whole the moments of confusion and tedium were more than paid for by the moments of magic.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 871, 13 April 1956, Page 30
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149Over-fanciful New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 871, 13 April 1956, Page 30
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