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Drama: a Problem.
- Source :
- Nation; 10/1/1924, Vol. 119 Issue 3091, p343-344, 2p
- Publication Year :
- 1924
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Abstract
- The theatrical production "Conscience" is very genuine drama of which the beginning gives not the slightest promise. When the curtain rises upon a lonely Alaskan hut swept by paper snow and reveals a very tiresome madman who summons ghosts from behind a black curtain that he may deliver to them vague harangues about the social system in general, the combination of melodramatic nonsense and intellectual pretentiousness suggests nothing so much as a feature film which has unfortunately learned to talk. Hardly less interesting than the problem which the play has wished to present is the problem which it unconsciously raises: How is it possible that a man capable of the telling realism of the two middle acts can burden them with a first scene which seems calculated to drive spectators from the theater and with a fourth which does as much as it can to destroy the effect of what has gone before?
- Subjects :
- CONSCIENCE
MELODRAMA
SOCIAL systems
INTELLECTUALS
SOCIOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00278378
- Volume :
- 119
- Issue :
- 3091
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Nation
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 13686778