“INTELLECTUAL” PLAYS
Director Deprecates Modern Trend (New Zeaiana Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 16. A prevalence of “wildly intellectual” plays in the modern English-speaking theatre was deplored by the artistic director of the New Zealand Players. Mr Stafford ‘feyrne, yesterday. Mr Byrne described as “wildly intellectual” plays in which “everyone must be extraordinary, and frightfully mixed up.” t “Extraordinary humanity can be interesting—but too much of it can be awfully boring,” he said at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Drama Council. Because of the influence of these plays on the contemporary English theatre, few really good plays were appearing in London. He thought the “wildly intellectual” influence might have been “wafted across from America.”-, The usual audience reaction was that "some walked out bored to tears—others declared it the greatest play thev had ever seen.”
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28537, 17 March 1958, Page 10
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