Talk About the Theatre
RANK NEWMAN, producer for the Canterbury Repertory Society, produced the first adult: play I ever saw. Since it was only five years ago, and I’m not as old as all that, this was an odd circumstance which I haven’t the space to explain now; but it left me feeling a gratitude which I’m glad to discharge by saying how much I’m enjoying listening to his talks On Stage. In those I’ve heard so far he’s been giving a history
of the theatre, up to the quite recent \introduction of the producer, The outlines of the story would be familiar to most people-they were to me-but his own experience in the theatre has been so wide and he makes such good use of it for illustration that his talks have a liveliness and individuality which I missed from the second (I didn’t hear the first) of Nola Miller’s two talks on the history of the theatre in New Zealand. Mr. Newman’s voice is so beautifully expressive that it is perhaps quibbling to remark that he uses it rather as if he were talking in a hall than in my living room-a habit of large verbal gestufe which actors are apt to share with politicians and clergymen.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 18
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211Talk About the Theatre New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 18
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