IRISH PLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 16

IRISH PLAY

REPERTORY PRODUCTION

Though there was little opportunity for special frocking in the Repertory Society's production, "Juno and the Paycock," by Scan O'Casey, staged in the Concert Chamber last evening, there was ample scope for character acting. The play, which is a tragedy in three, acts, has an Irish setting, and is the story of a peasant family during the rebellion in 1922. The scenes all take place in the living apartment of a tenement house in Dublin—a povertystricken room with a dreary outlook on to a dull brick building. Mrs. G. C. Boyes, who played the name part, wore a ragged black skirt and a fawn shirt blouse with a fawn shawl, in the first scene, until a change came in the family fortunes, when she appeared in a wholly respectable anklelength frock of black silk, with a black, green-lined cloak. "Mary," her daughter (Mrs. George Swan), wore a black costume, with a green blouse and halo hat, and later a plain. black , afternoon frock with touches of white organdie at throat and wrists. A picturesque costume (comprising a brown skirt with pink over-blouse, a brown fringed shawl lined .with mauve) was worn by . Mrs. Charles Anderson as "Mrs. Maisie.Madigan."

"Mrs. Tancred" (Mrs. Sidney Tingeyf wore a black pre-war mourning frock. Others who took part were Misses Catherine Forde, Jessie Davidson, and Margaret. Harris. ■. .