"OUTWARD BOUND."

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1927, Page 5

"OUTWARD BOUND."

t Sutton Vane's skilfully conceived play, Outward Bound," which is to be produced by Mr. Joseph Cunningham for Messrs. Richard White and Eric Edgley, with Miss Zillah Bateman starring at the head of a brilliant English company, in the Cxrand Opera House, for a brief season i commencing on Tuesday next, made an instantaneous hit in London. The plot is daringly original, presenting as it does a party of travellers on an ocean liner which may be aptly described as a "ship' oi the dead. The passengers are .people who have passed out of this life, the steward is also dead, and the liner is without captain, officers, or crew. In the introductory episodes the passengers may be taken .for just the usual kind of people who embark on an ocean voyage, carrying with them their real personalities, likes and dislikes, prejudices and partialities. It is strange; however, that when each has to consider his or her respective destination, mere ,is a mysterious indefiniteness about the voyage. It remains for Tom Prior a young dissipated ne'er-do-well, to introduce to his fellow-passengers the awful tact that they are all dead. 'The dread significance of their situation is at first not realised by the others, but at length the truth becomes too evident to be denied, when the ship reaches a distant port and is boarded by a mysterious "examiner, who passes judgment on each- according to his or her past. "Outward Bound" aroused a tremendous amount of controversy in the Press in Great Britain, and letters appeared in the Press from representatives of the various churches, demonstrating what a profound impression the play had made. The box plans for the_five Wellington performances opened at Ihe Bristol this morning.