ONE-ACT PLAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 124, 21 November 1935, Page 6

ONE-ACT PLAYS

REPERTORY SELECTION The second night of the 'Wellington Repertory Theatre's.season if oneact plays was as big a success -as the first, andthe Townttall. Concert Chamber was .again last; night filled to the doors. .-Three fresh plays of 'Varied type were presented-and one was repeated from the,night, before. These were "The Road orPoplarsV (Vemon Sylvane), "A Queen at Kolyrodd" (B< R. OBnen , 'ln. Port" (Harold Simp™Lt? nd T Spartan Gkl'V(A7-«r. Talbot). Incidental music was provided by the Wellington Orchestral Soc °n d uced by Mr. Eric Meier, v ™ n Boad -£? Pop Jars," produced' by \ Mr. Greville Wiggs, was the first of the plays. It is a grim episode of madness resulting from the horrors of war, but as a play it has too little substance to support the long drawn-out >agony But it gave Mr. G. H. A. Swin a chance for some fine character work and as the sufferer from hallucinations and incipient insanity he was-excel-Mr - H. N: Hannah, Mr. George ?h» c^V and Mr?-.Craig Mackenzie were £l2 the !i Participants that really mattered and played their parte with credit But it was not a good play as a start for an evening's entertainmlLt n-^!»S ue^n at iHolyropd." by B. R. OBnen, a member of the Rebertorv s °= ie ty, was the next preseWatfai a£d afforded welcome reUeJfrom toe sffl of the first. This is a historical eDisqde centred around the murder c 5 Rizzip by Lord Darnley to quent wrath of Mary Queen of ST Produced by Mr. E. S? Baldwin ttds was x most admirably staged iivtJeriod costumes. Miss MoUie Brown^Marr key of a tog*y cart and with a little more imperiousness £r oul £,£ ave achieved a sieSal succl« Mr. O'Brien himself waFthe" UMated £«?* RIZ2l °- and Mr. JoHn Roberts a rather unconvincing Darnley P A perfect little gem,- acted with pohsh and .finish;, wSn Port" pro duced.by Mr. Hugh Herd. Inthfs a ?£ d ? c : f- vis j. ted *y, an.escaped crim* ial lunatic who: arrives With are volv« bent on evening scores. The who was expecting the visit, very erly keeps up a running streain of con-versation-alllies-which s^com ly deceives the criminal that he fori goes the shooting. This was ,toart°cuJ m ly ; v !, U acted b y Mr- J- BTtftfdwvn (the Judge), Mr. E. E. Le Grove (the duS"* d Mr - N - V - Wo s? "the n'•' P^.?, par * an Ciirl '" : Proauce<f by A p. Priestley, was a repetition from the ™ st J" 5 ! I*' 1 *' and its humour sewed to round off a very successful programme