NEW VOICES
"HE theme of the moral problems of the idealist-cum-traitor scientist has been so over-worked by novelists recently that I didn’t expect anything very new from Norman King’s play The Shadow of Doubt (YA link). In fact, although the scientist turned out to be a clean potato after all, the plot followed the line more of a quiet thriller than of a psychological study, as Arthur Ross, the scientist, helped the police to trap the real traitor. But a literate script and some very sound acting made the play quite acceptable middle-brow listening. It was a pleasure to hear in the main roles of this Auckland studios production some voices whose impact had not been blunted by over-familiar-ity. The policy of the NZBS of using in radio plays the cast of visiting theatrical companies is a sensible one.
For this reason alone, it is to be regretted that we don’t see more such companies, The Boy Friend cast, notably John Huson as Ross, and Richard Meikle as Frank, his friend, brought freshness to the script, and among better-known voices, Laurence Hepworth, as a dogged Scotland Yard man, made the strongest impression.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 20
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192NEW VOICES New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 20
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