Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 10. August 9, 1951
[Introduction]
Margaret Walkers work as a producer continues to surprise us each time in spite of our being prepared to be surprised by her.
This in itself has probably gained her a wider following than would be expected, if one is to judge by the large attendances at each showing of Dark of the Moon, presented by Miss Walker as the Training College's major production of the year in V.U.C. Little Theatre.
Irrealism suggests itself as a handy label to describe the talents of Miss Walker, and this play, by Howard Richardson and William Berney, proved a convenient irrealist vehicle.
Fantastic, incredible. Miss Walker worked it up to an emotional pitch that was gripping, that did suspend one's disbelief; and, this accomplished, made the play one of the most moving, in several places that Wellington has seen in many months.
I stress the importance of Miss Walker's work because it was surely the hand of the producer which made a cohesive force out of a production composed of so many false coins and bad patches; not all o them attributable to the inexperience of the cast, but in herring in the play itself.