Alim Owen plays

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32564, 25 March 1971, Page 4

Alim Owen plays

Two plays by Alun Owen, one of British television’s leading playwrights, have been bought by the N.Z.B.C. They come under the title of “The Ladies.” In the first of them, “Doreen,” two junior managers pick up two girls from the telephone switchboard, and then rapidly lose control of the situation. Both men are defeated by an aggressive, teasing woman who wounds their masculine vanities and destroys a confident, arrogant Lothario. Geraldine Moffat, Alan Lake, Ray Smith and Juliette St David feature in this play. The second story, “Joan” tells of a pretty journalist who is summoned to a mysterious interview in a seemingly prosaic civil service office, and has flutterings of fear as she is questioned by a bureaucrat about a crime of which she knows nothing. Her panic becomes understandable and is finally justified. Ann Bell, Peter Sallis and Angela Pleasence are the principal players.