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...HAMISH GLEAVE (316 pp.)- Richard Llewellyn-Doubleday...
...boat from Southampton to St. Malo, France, and disappeared in the direction of the Iron Curtain. Last fall Her Majesty's Stationery Office issued the official story of their defection (TIME, Oct. 3). The report's half-truth was accepted as a polite fiction. Now Novelist Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley) seems to offer some fiction as the impolite truth...
...Novelist Llewellyn's version borrows from all these theories, and also differs from them. His disturbing explanation tells of men who betray their country for causes which may be emotionally deep but are intellectually frivolous...
Americans, who are less troubled by this particular kind of snobbery, may wonder what it is all about. But Author Llewellyn has lived on both sides of the diphthong curtain (he has been both an enlisted man and a captain in the Welsh Guards), and he plays this theme until a sense of caste becomes a vein of madness as authentic as Othello's jealousy...
...successful use of arena staging in a House dining hall was the major achievement of the evening, and credit for this must go to theatre designer Llewellyn Bigelow and director Roger Graef. It appeared from last night's performance that there are certain problems of access to the stage and blocking still to be solved, but Graef's originality of handling has exploited all the advantages of the arena, even if it has not escaped all its pitfalls...