Dramatic Disasters
RUCE STEWART’S It’s a Tough Business (1YA) was a very slight and unsatisfactory affair. It seemed to me reminiscent of stories from the old Sydney Bulletin, with its backblocks types, its strolling players, and other features just one remove from On Our Selection. A couple of out-of-work actors persuade a stage-struck barman to invest his savings in a disastrous theatrical production, and end up serving beer in his place, Mr Stewart might have got something out of this had his dialogue sounded not quite so amateurish and padded, and had the play been better done. But, whether it was the piece itself, or something else, the NZBS cast made a pretty poor fist of this one. Even Laurence Hepworth, saddled with
the improbable part of an "TI Say, laddie" type of Thespian, could breathe little life into the moth-eaten character, But the sound effects, especially of the sheep which wreck the performance. were
pleasant:
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 20
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158Dramatic Disasters New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 20
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