Fantasy from France
[HE EAGLE HAS TWO HEADS, by Jean Cocteau, will now be heard in Surf Radio Theatre on Saturday, March 23 (ZBs, ZAs, 1XH), instead of on | March 16 as originally planned, and the play for March 16 will be The Blue Goose, Jean Cocteau, poet, dramatist, novelist, film director and painter, is an extraordinary and versatile artist, whose work is always profound and challenging. The mood of his works changes from exuberance and sophistication to a poetic awareness of tragedy. Filmgoers may remember his moving Orphée and La Belle et La Béte. He conceives all art as poetry which finds different media necessary at different times. His play The Eagle Has Two Heads is a strange fantasy which some critics have claimed as the most remarkable play from postwar Europe. It is a fairy tale romance of a widowed queen who lives in. a dream world. A young poet breaks into her fantastic castle, meaning to assassinate her, but instead he falls hopelessly in love with her. In this production, Brenda Dunrich plays the Queen, and Michael Pate plays Stanislaus, the poet. Other roles are taken by Sheila Sewell, William Eldridge and Sydney Wheeler.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 26
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197Fantasy from France New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 26
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