Depression Echoes
O my mind, Love on the Dole, that memorable play of the Depression, was given a really stirring production by the NZBS on Sunday Showcase. 1 have rarely heard the Wellington players in such thoroughly good form, all acting with a vigour and a sincerity which overcame the handicap of the fact that the play has inevitably dated, The accents of Hanky Park, too, sounded authentic, although Dorothy Campbell, as Sally Hardcastle, who chooses a fate worse than death rather than poverty, allowed her natural voice to break through quite often. Nora Slaney, as her most distressful mother, and Roy Leywood, as her work-desper-ate father, stood out for poignant acting. Even the mob scenes had a depth and stereophonic quality that made me forget, as I seldom do, that they were sound effects. The revival of a play like this has a significance that goes beyond its genuine dramatic appeal, in reminding a new generation of grim days within their parents’ memory. When it was over, my eldest said, "Terribly exaggerated, wasn’t it?" I am sure that there were many listeners who could have repaounes him that the play was truth itself,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 22
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194Depression Echoes New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 22
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