A NATIVITY PLAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22743, 2 December 1935, Page 12

A NATIVITY PLAY

“ Everyman of Everystreet,” which will be presented in the Concert Chamber next Monday, was written by Mary Stocks especially for production in the Manchester University Settlement. _ The Nativity scenes move with a simple dignity which the verse form accentuates, in spite of their relation to the story of Every Family with its twentieth century problems of insecurity. The play is repre sentative of the recent revival of interest in religious drama of a type reminiscent in some degree of the Middle Ages. In those days all drama came under the aegis of the Church, was written by the clergy and acted in churches or their precincts. To-day we hear of Masefield’s “ Coming of Christ,” first played in Canterbury Cathedral: while a recent number of Drama, the publication of the British Drama League, tells of a performance in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, watched by 20,000 spectators who faced the stage stets as wide as the facade of the cathedral.