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    #16
    Originally posted by Al R Gando View Post
    Ever been to Armenia?
    What relevance is that? This is a thread about the play broadcast on R3 last Sunday. If you didn't listen to it, then I suggest you don't have anything to contribute to the discussion.

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      #17
      Wish the Listen Again was working
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        #18
        I think I was the only person who listened to it the first time it was on. Here's the meagre discussion. I agree that it might have been better as the subject of a documentary but, as far as I remember, and knowing little about the subject, I still found it an interesting drama.

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          #19
          Originally posted by aeolium View Post
          What relevance is that? This is a thread about the play broadcast on R3 last Sunday. If you didn't listen to it, then I suggest you don't have anything to contribute to the discussion.
          Temper-temper. No-one has anything to contribute - except YOU, of course??

          You didn't answer my question. Been to Armenia much? Know or work with any Armenians?

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            #20
            Please stop disrupting the discussion, ARG. It's about a play and its dramatic qualities, not about the historical facts.
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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              #21
              Originally posted by tony yyy View Post
              I think I was the only person who listened to it the first time it was on. Here's the meagre discussion. I agree that it might have been better as the subject of a documentary but, as far as I remember, and knowing little about the subject, I still found it an interesting drama.
              It was interesting in terms of the subject matter but I thought it didn't really make it as a drama. The subject seemed too big for a 90-minute play. Perhaps it would have been more successful as a film (if they could find a way to present the horror of it visually - in that, radio has something of an advantage).

              In fact, paradoxically, although the subject seemed big in dramatic terms the plot was a little weak and could hardly do justice to the story it had to tell. For me, that affected the performances too, with Jack Klaff the only one who really measured up. I suppose I would say the cast did what they could with their parts but the play lacked complexity and subtlety.
              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                #22
                My thoughts about the play's qualities as a drama align with aeolium's (#2). Louis Nowra's approach to the unfolding brutal events is to filter them through a mental contest between his two principal characters (the Consul and the Governor), who end up engaging in a regular game of poker whose stakes ultimately become the lives of the refugees. There is little plot. There is little 'drama' - those events that could have been made dramatic are dealt with by exposition - it's as though the playwright has deliberately chosen a lowkey approach to allow the history centre stage. I didn't find this approach particularly successful, although I enjoyed listening to it again.

                Russ

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