Loupy Loup
BEGINNING with quite the most noisy and tumultuous 10 minutes of any play I have heard this year, the NZBS production of Romain Rolland’s Wolves turned out to be exceptionally good value. In 1793, the French Revolutionary Army is fighting the Prussians. A valiant, but crudely savage leader (Selwyn Toogood) has a_ hated rival (Bruce Mason) condemned to death. Another sans-culotte (Michael Cotterill), with a passion for truth, exposes the treachery, but the wolfish accuser’s battle-victories make him an untouchable hero, and the innocent man dies. As soon as the motives and characterrelations became plain, this play shaped as engrossing drama, concerned, like so many modern French plays, with basic moral issues. The prick of conscience,
the claim of the doer to over-ride reason and morality, the absoluteness of justice — these and other themes were not so much stated as incarnated in the script, which, for intellectual content and _ sharplyetched characters, equals any the NZBS has essayed. The playing throughout was excellent, with a fine contrast of voices; Selwyn Toogood drove his way forcefully through a_part on the conviction of which the whole play depended. For’ vizgour.
speed and theatrical zest, Wolves satisfied me completely.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 18
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197Loupy Loup New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 18
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