Fijian pupil’s lead role
A Fijian girl in her first year at a New Zealand school will play the major role in the Aranui High School’s production of "Caucasian Chalk Circle," next week. Canaan Bryson, a sixthformer at the school, has more words to learn than anyone in the two-hour play, which has a cast of 80. The play is the second the school has attempted. Its art department has made the sets, the staff have made costumes. Four teachers will act in the play, which is set in the medieval period in Georgia, in Russia, during a revolution. The heroine, Grusha, played by Canaan Bryson, adopts the son of a local governor and the climax of the plav centres on the outcome of a charge against her of abducting the child. Songs in the play, written by Bertolt Brecht, are set to music written and played by pupils. ‘‘Caucasian Chalk Circle,” produced by the head of the school’s English department, iMr V. Catherwood. will be ! staged in the school hall on I October 13 and 14.
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Press, 12 October 1976, Page 7
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