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[RIN UMMUS or The Three-Bob Bit, which was last week’s Showcase, reveals the BBC at its most skittish, and the experience is far from edifying. Patric Dickinson has newly translated a play from Plautus, first produced in 186 B.C., and he commended it to us in a foreword as revealing the dateless humanity of its author. Hm. As played to us, the farce revealed a delight in almost unseizable convolutions of plot, and considerable robustness of idiom which Mr Dickinson rendered into a vernacular somewhere between Shake--spearian double-talk and a modern radio variety show; in fact, the chief comic was a cross Yetween Feste and Tony Hancock. The cast seemed determined to enjoy themselves, come hell or high water, and I confess I found it all a great bore. John Hotchkiss uncerlined the japes and wheezes with exasperatingly twee music (such fun!) © until finally, all one could do was make faces at the thing. So that for me, the old coinage was a pretty dubious issue.
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 20
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