Under the Influence
) [ ENNOX ROBINSON'S Drama at Inish is godd fun. A ham theatrical | pair bring culture to an Irish seaside | town, playing Ibsen and Chekhov, "revealing to you what you really are," | the leading man says. They do this 4 | effectively that young men attemp | suicide, spingters discover how sad their | life has been, couples quarrel dramatic- | ally, and the local M.P., until now an | obedient party hack, brings down the | because he ‘has seen An Enemy of the People. Finally the trouble is diagnosed, the players sent
packing, and a circus brought in instead. It was gaily played by the Belfast studios of the BBC. I’ve heard it twice, and the second time I noticed the moral. Circuses are better for you than Ibsen. Well, once or twice I’ve begun to think, but have strangled the horrid thought, that the ZBs were more fun than the YCs, that highbrows have less fun than lowbrows. Under the influence of Drama at Inish I was not only convinced of this, but ready to proclaim it, as I am often momentarily turned from mouse to lion by something I’ve heard or read. But this, the play said, is the kind of meddling plays ought not to do. So what?
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 22
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210Under the Influence New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 22
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