NZBS PLAYS
Sir,-I do not want to criticise unduly, but after weeks of Monday and Friday night plays from 2YA I am provoked to protest. Is there no regard at all to casting the right voice to the personality portrayed? I cannot see how | there can be» when we are forced to. listen to William, Austin and Davina Whitehouse in practically three plays out of four. I cannot believe there is. such a shortage of actors in Wellington, that it is necessary to use the same actors continually. I am not criticising their acting ability, only their voices, Too much of anything is monotonous. Some of the Christchurch plays. have been excellent, perhaps because we hear them only occasionally. I enjoyed the play Mildred Dear and the BBC serial The Mill on the Floss, and others well cast. The new serial Dead Circuit also promises to be good, not so much: because of the story alone, but because the voices match the parts portrayed perfectly. I can see no reason why the NZBS could not do as well.
M.
M.
(Upper Hutt).
(One small reason, of course, is the difference between two million and fifty’ million
people.-
-Ed.)
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19560727.2.12.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
198NZBS PLAYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in