"SOCRATES"
»—— fr ■ ■ REPERTORY THEATRE'S ' PRODUCTION The Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society's season for the presentation of Clifford Bax's "Socrates" will conclude this evening. For the second performance at the Radiant Hall last evening, there was another large audience. The story is based almost wholly on the Platonic conception of Socrates, and in the title role Professor James Shelley makes an impressive and affecting figure. The full cast is as follows:—-Socrates, Professor James Shelley; Archilochus, H. McD. Vincent; Meletus, Roy Twyneham; Agathon, N. H. W. Harrison; Alcibiades, G. S. Salter; Cebes, Harold Shaw; Simmias, M. T. Denham; Aristophanes, Bernard Beeby; Eryximachus, W. J. Hunter; Euthenoe, Miss Valerie Tennent; Xantippe, Miss N~.iie Enright; Anytus, H. McD. Vincent; Lycon, C. W. Collins; Crito, Robinson E. Hall; Phaedo, R. M. Young; slave girls, Gretchen Marsden and Peggie Patterson; a faun, E. L. Cordery; a
dryad, Edna Gill; officer of the court, P. L. Mansell; soldiers, Mervyn Bull and Miles Greenwood; citizens, S. L. Davies, J. H. McGlinchy, and H. C. W. Preston; the jailer, Mervyn Bull. The play was produced by Profeesor Shelley and Miss Kiore King.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20946, 29 August 1933, Page 3
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