Gogol
HE great Russian writer’s Diary of ‘a Madman was realised by the BBC in a production of masterly skill from 2YC. Paul Scofield, who has one of the English theatre’s most powerful and flexible voices, read the Diary, and with the discreet but hair-raising accompaniment of weirdly suggestive music took us at once into that dark damp world of 19th century Russia with which, supremely, Dostoievsky has made us so familiar. Slowly, with piercing clarity, the whole face of contemporary Russia became visible: the perniciously corrupt Civil Service, the odious toadying and fawning by the lower clerk for the one above him, the dark horrors of domestic life. Paul Scofield has a bravura technique of characterisation, of sudden switches of mood and accent which recalls Emlyn Williams. Don’t miss it, by any means, when it is played
again,
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 39, Issue 989, 1 August 1958, Page 21
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