MELEE ON STAGE.
ACTORS AND AUDIENCE
SENTIMENTS OF PLAY OBJECTED .sV. TO.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Feb. 12. There was an amazing scene in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, when Sean O’Casey’s play, “Plough and the Stars,” was produced. The play deals with the revolutionary movement in Ireland. In the second act a woman tried to make a speech from the gallery, objecting to the defamation of the memory of the men who took part in the rebellion in Easter : Week, 1916. In the third act " a number of the audience clambered up on to the stage and a free fight with the actors occurred lie fore the shouting audience. When the curtain was lowered a man swinging thereon was knocked by one of the actors into the orchestra. Women then began smashing the music stands. Mr W. B. Yates, the poet, vainly appea'ed for order. Eventually the police arrived, and the play proceeded to the end in spite of repeated interruptions.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 5
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161MELEE ON STAGE. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 5
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