Comedy on welfare State
A play called “The Benefit Game,” which will be broadcast on the radio Concert programme at 9.45 tonight, is an amusing send-up of the welfare State and its various institutions and makes some pertinent and timely points, says Radio New Zealand. Terence Benbow was made redundant and thus has been unemployed for three years. The Labour Department has stopped his dole because he has refused a particular job. Benbow is
a zany character who infuriates all he meets. The dole man eventually tells him to see a psychiatrist — which he does. The psychiatrist tells him angrily to rob a bank — which he tries to do. And so it goes 0n... The play, produced for Radio New Zealand in Wellington by Ross Jolly, was written by Stephen Walker. The cast includes Michael Wilson, Michael Haigh, Dulcie Smart, Ray Henwood and Grant Tilly.
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Press, 11 July 1983, Page 19
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