Spanish Testament
| WISH I could say that I had enjoyed An Artnistice With Truth, by Emmanuel Robles, which the NZBS gave us the other night in a valiant productions I thought it much below their best. The play is an overblown, interminably Spanish affair, lasting two hours almost, far too long for its central theme of honour and integrity, developed in a manner almost as baroque in its sinuous movement as a great Spanish cathedral. The opening sounded so bad in translation that my heart went out to the unfortunate actress playing Senorita Ophelia for some of the gummiest lines I have heard for some time. The main protagonists, the General, and Colonel Juarez, delayed their entrance with a fine Spanish disregard for the dramatic conventions. Once launched into the action, each gave a lively account of himself. But the defeat of honour, the climax of the play, was cliché; the action of what was presumably the Peninsular War, too involved and tedious for allegories to be struck on it, and the florid script made tough listening. A splendid performance, however, as the General,
from Selwyn Toogood.
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 25
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189Spanish Testament New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 25
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