Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 24, No. 13. 1961.
Massey Presents Tableaux
Massey Presents Tableaux
This year Massey chose a Victorian setting and Noel Coward's "Family Album," which turned out to be a rather uninspired series of tableaux, thinly disguised beneath a Cowardian giggle at the Victorian patriarch and his family.
There were some good characterisations, said the adjudicator, but the performance was marred by technical faults of production, particularly in movement and groupings.
Perhaps the main disappointment was the shallow theme. Generally speaking, this is not the time or the place for 1934 vintage Coward, and we had expected more from last year's winners.
—L.L.C