Sunday, September 04, 2011

Radio review – Best Plays – “The Madwoman of Chaillot” (1952) **

There is a mad woman – the eccentric lady who tries to stop greedy people digging for oil in Paris – but as John Chapman points out a more accurate title would be “mad women” for there’s a bunch of nutters. It doesn’t translate that well to radio – too many characters, too theatrical – I think you need to see it. Didn’t help that the version I heard the sound was fuzzy in the last five minutes. Aline MacMahon plays the lead.

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