Stoppard play

Press, 23 October 1980, Page 15

Stoppard play

‘‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour,” a. play written for actors and orchestra by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn, will be broadcast on the Concert programme at 9.15 p.m. tomorrow. It was recently performed by actors from Wellington’s' Downstage Theatre and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in the Wellington Town .Hall: John. Hopkins conducted. Among the actors in this production were John Banas, Peter VereJones, John Callen, David McKenzie, and Simon Barlow, who have all at some stage worked for Radio New Zealand’s drama department.’ Dumas recordings A serialised version of “The • Count of • Monte

Cristo,” the classic story written by Alexandre Dumas, will begin on the National programme tomorrow. This novel, together with “The Three Musketeers,” - established Dumas as a novelist. Arrested on the eve of his wedding on a false charge, Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in an island fortress: the Chateau d’lf. After 14 years he succeeds in escaping, to find that his enemies have flourished and his beloved Mercedes has married his rival. But Dantes,, knows the, whereabouts of a large treasure, and, calling himself the Count of Monte Cristo he uses it to gain revenge on those responsible, for his imprisonment.