"OUTWARD BOUND."

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1927, Page 10

"OUTWARD BOUND."

Is there life after death? is a qiiestion involved in the plot of Suttoit Vanes exceptionally interesting play, Outward Bound." which is to be produced for the first time in New Zealand by Joseph Uinningham's New English Company. The theory of a future existence has enthralled the' human race from the dawn of history. Disputants of various creeds may differ.on points of dogma or the form of worship, but they are in agreement on the subject of a future existence. Long before being brought in touch with civilisation the savages in various parts of the world have entertained the belief in a life after death. It is with masterly skill that Mr. Sutton Vane, the famous playwright, «as inter-woven-the subject of life after death into his play, and contrived to present it in a manner so realistic as to rival, realism itself. The action of the play takes place on a mysterious ocean-going liner, which has no officers and no crew. The passengers comprise people, of everyday life, folk ot widely-separated social strata. They are bound they know not whither.. Gradually they become- conscious of the fact that they are all dead, and at the first port of call they are to be interviewed by an "examiner," who will determine their future. There is sparkling humour in the first two acts, but in the final acts the situation becomes tensely dramatic. •