‘SHIFTING HEART'

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29800, 17 April 1962, Page 21

‘SHIFTING HEART'

Play Of Racial Tensions A clipping from an old Australian newspaper about a Polish immigrant in Australia who killed himself because of the way Australian men had treated him, was the inspiration for “The Shifting Heart,” by Richard Beynon. The resident producer for the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society, Mr Heath Joyce, who will produce the play for the society, said yesterday that Richard Beynon had shown him this clipping before he had the idea of writing the play and entering it in the Elizabethan Theatre Trust competition.

The play, entered half an hour before the entries closed, won the competition, and was produced by the Elizabethan Theatre. It was bought by Sir Laurence Olivier for London production. The play is about a family of Italians living amongst Australians. The daughter of the family is married to an Australian working man. In Mr Joyce’s production, Clarence B. Hall and Marjorie Hammond will play the mother and father, and Neil Dolheguy, the Australian. The play will be presented in the Repertory Theatre from April 27 to May 5. School Musical A girls’ school, Gainsborough Hall, is the setting of a musical comedy which will be presented this evening and tomorrow evening in Riccarton High School’s hall. The music has been written by a master at the school, Anthony Peek, and his wife, Rosalind Peek, wrote the lyrics.

DAME MVRA HESS will be unable to take on any engaqernents in the immediate future because of a rheumatic condition in her bands The concert pianist is to have intensive psysiotherapy tre-itment, but will not need to go into hospital.