Tuesday, 7 September, 2010
Quadrant Online

November 2008

Volume LII Number 451

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Criticism

On Spring Theatre

Michael Connor

The chauffeur was reading Proust—something that since the creation of the world has never been known to happen outside plays or Melbourne novels. In this complacent and show-off script the characters talked about food, property, holiday destinations, foreign travel, restaurants, education, movies, books and writers, painters. Murray-Smith had turned the Saturday Age into a play.

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