"THE POHUTUKAWA TREE"
Sir,-S.C., writing of Bruce Mason’s play The Pohutukawa Tree in your issue of September 13, says: "Few have the gift to capture, as Mr Mason has done, the thoughts and feelings and stubborn pride of an old Maori woman of high birth." According to S.C.’s outline of the play, this old Maori woman is driven by the "downfall" of her children (16-year-old daughter in trouble with pakeha youth and 18-year-old son influenced by comics) to reject these children, to turn from her religion (previously described as "her deep Christian faith"), and finally to a "decision to die’ (does this mean suicide?). Surely S.C. does the play grave injustice. Or is this really Mr Mason’s hi-fi version of race relations under a nohutukawa within sight of Rangitoto?
R.M.
R.
(Hokianga).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 11
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132"THE POHUTUKAWA TREE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 11
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