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FTER the above harsh words I'd better make amends with praise of another NZBS production, Bonaventure, by Charlotte Hastings. In this play the acting was rather better than the script, although that began very promisingly. A convicted murderer and her male and female attendants were on their way back to Norwich gaol after her appeal had been rejected when they were floodbound and took refuge in a hospital run by nuns. The resulting tensions and revelations of character were coming along nicely when they were quietly dropped in favour of some slick detection by which Sister Mary Bonaventure cleared the prisoner. The suicide of the real culprit followed. It was certainly nice to knqw that the attractive person Peggy Walker made of, the prisoner hadn’t done it, but it seemed an almost cheating climax to what began so well. The production could scarcely be faulted, however. The atmosphere ‘was beautifully built up, and I forgot for once that I was again listening to William Austin, Davina Whitehouse and co. This strengthened my belief that the most unfortunate result of the overuse of these players is on them rather than on the listener. They seem so sel- dom to have the energy to show their full capabilities, as they did this time.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 919, 22 March 1957, Page 14
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