"PEP."

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 9

"PEP."

This evening at the Grand Opera House and again on Monday and Tuesday evenings the students of Vie toria University College will present their annual extravaganza. These extravaganzas have now become quite a local institution, to which playgoers look forward with expectation. Tho theme of tin's year's play, "Pep," deals with the suppression and sacrifice of youth, "and shows how youth also rises to the occasion and throws off the shackling chains.. The first scene is laid in Ancient Greece, where on a certain day ofthe :year a number of ; Athenian youths and maidens are sacrificed to the ferocious mythical beast, the minotaur. Here, however, youth comes to the rescue in the person of Thesus (Mr. D. Priestley), who slays the monster and thus frees the city from the sacrifice of its youth The second act takes one further on in the march of time, and in this is shown a scene from the Trench -Revolution. Here, again, youth comes to the fore in the person of the young- Charlotte Corday (Miss M. Cooley), who, having slain the tyrant Marat, frees her land from enslavement. The third act brings the audience still further onward, to the advent of the mechanical men featured in the play "Py.XJ.R." by the Capek brothers, which caused such a, sensation in the - Old World.. The- usual local characters and topical hits have been ingeniously worked into the play in an amusing manner. The producer is/Mr. Theodore Trezise. The students are expecting bumper houses.