 Event |
The Forest
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| Venue |
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| First Date |
1963 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Unknown |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
…The play has bursts of activity but little dramatic action. Some lively verbal exchanges in the first act between the two archangels come cloest to drama; the piece of slapstick in the third [act] sounds a grotesque literary exercise. The story is used as a means of expressing ideas, rather than to bring persons or even interests together in conflict. The persons meet and converse to exchange information and deliver orations… [They speak in iambic pentameter.] |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
|
| Secondary Genre |
Comedy
Verse Drama
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Text Nationality |
New Zealand
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| Production Nationality |
New Zealand
|
| Further Information |
First production - author died before it was produced.
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| Event Status |
Completed
|
| Data Set |
Theatre Aotearoa |
| Event Identifier |
190306 |
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