ZOLA’S “GUILTY”
Sir,—Surely the producer’s conception of “Guilty” and the zeal and competence of the cast in carrying it into effect have made this play memorable. To say that “it is not really alive . . . simply melodrama.” seems to reveal your otherwise discriminating and conscientious reviewer as something of a dull dog. especially as he has praised modern plays that are more purely melodramatic. Zola’s 4heme has its reality while his technique helped to crack the conventions of Victorian melodrama Even if those conventions are still very much a part of it, Mr Newman has taken them into his sweep, so that the exaggerations of the period have, in his hands, become an artistic embellishment for our own. They have, for this correspondent at least, made yet more piquant a most satisfying dish.—Yours, etc.. R. N. O'REILLY. August 7. 1955.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 10
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