DRAMA FESTIVAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21580, 26 August 1933, Page 11 (Supplement)

DRAMA FESTIVAL

NEXT WEEK'S FIXTURES THREE PLAYS EACH DAY The first annual festival of drama under the auspices of the Auckland area branch of the British Drama League takes place at the Town Hall Concert Chamber during the coming week. The competition has attracted entries from many of the leading dramatic societies of the district, in addition to bringing before the publio the high standard reached by many societies which have hitherto played to a limited public. This year the festival includes an A section, which is an open competition for one-act plays, and a B section, for one-act plays by New Zealand authors only. The trophy in the A section has been donated by the New Zealand Herald, and in the B section by the New Zealand Mirror.

Miss Elizabeth Blake, who has had a comprehensive experience of dramatic festivals overseas, will be the adjudicator, and during the festival ehe will give a short criticism of each play from the stage.' The programme will be as follows: Monday.—" Local Colour" (Miss May Scott), Pio Pio Dramatic Club (classes A and B); "Thrown on the World" (Leacock adaptation), Auckland Girls' Grammar School Dramatic Club (class A); "The Hour Glass" (Yeats), the Avon Circle (class A). Tuesday.—" The New Poor " Jennings), the Avon Circle (class A); "The Patchwork Quilt" (Rachel Lyman Field), Greenhithe Women's Institute (class A); " The Stepmother " (Milne), Pio Pio Dramatic Club (class A). Wednesday.—"The Maker of Dreams" (Oliphant Downs), St. George Dramatic Circle, Hamilton (class A); " Ghosts on Christmas Eve " (Mrs. Latter), Georgian Readers (classes A and B); " The Maid of France " (Brighouse), St. George's Dramatic Circle, Hamilton (class A). Thursday.—" Challenge " (Mrs. Parker), Georgian Readers (classes A and B); "Mr. John" (Anon), Victoria League Entertainment Circle (class A); " The Second Mrs. Tanqueray " (Pinero), last act, Garrick Society (class A). Friday.—" Tho Sisters' Tragedy" (Hughes), Elam Dramatic Club (class A); "Judgment" (Mrs. Doust), The Writers' Club (classes A and B); "Borgia" (Radclyffe), Lyceum Club Dramatic Circle (class A). Saturday.—" Tho House on the Hill " (Corrie), St. Andrew's Society (class A); "The Philanderer" (Shaw), last act, Playhouse Club (class A); "Tho Turncoat Politician " (Mrs. Milburn), Pen-Women's Club, (classes A and B).