To See Their Plays

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31319, 15 March 1967, Page 17

To See Their Plays

Ernest Adams and Brian Gallas, two Christchurch authors, will see their one-act plays performed by the Elmwood Players this evening.

Ernest Adams’s play, “The Request,” won the first prize in the British Drama League’s playwriting competition. It is about a man condemned to death for murder.

An Englishman who has appeared for Elmwood Players in more than nine productions, Mr Adams has written 16 plays in the last 18 ■ months. “The Request” is the first play he has produced. Mr Adams also writes short stories. The second play, “The Women of Troy,” is the second Brian Gallas has had produced. The first, “Elektra,” was performed by the Elmwood Players last year. “The Women of Troy” was runner-up in the open section of the B.D.L. competition in 1966. Mr Gallas, who wrote his first play in Standard 4, is now a Latin honours student at the University of Canterbury. Completing" a bill of New

Zealand plays is “Still Grows the Tawny Weed,” by Joan Drury Calder of Motueka. The three plays will be performed at the Elmwood Playhouse till Saturday.