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An executive's office - the head of a branch of the Education Department. His principal character, the Director (John Fireman), is seen as Prometheus chained to his desk, endeavouring to enlighten the mind of young New Zealand, through the School Journal. If this parallel had been implicit or latent, simply serving as a springboard to Mr Baxter's imagination, the Greek myth would have added resonance, but here it was over-explicit and over-worked, alienating rather than enlightening. Otherwise, the play worked with increasing absorption. Mr Baxter's gift for comedy, his sympathy, his relish for the underdogs who sniff and lift their legs in forbidden places, makes him a great liberator. In accordance with the prescriptions for Greek drama, Mr Baxter kept his overt actions offstage. |
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