Edgecumbe Play Group Praised At Drama Presentation
Both the Taneatua Women’s Institute and Awaiti Players, Edgecumbe, were successful in presenting plays at the British Drama League’s annual festival held at Rotorua this week. The Awaiti Players were the winning group last year and presented one of the best performances while the Taneatua company also came in for some praise.
Seven young women of the Awaiti Players, made a very pleasing picture in “Postman’s Knock.”- The scene is a studio, which was indicated very sketchily by a single statuette. The outstanding player in this group was Oreti Stewart, whose voice, stage presence and general acting ability are first class. This is high praise in view of the fact that the rest of the cast were above average amateur standard. The production also calls for comment; in a play where there is considerable movement by half a dozen people, there was a noticeable absence of masking and the weakness of the story was saved to a degree by careful stage management, and by a natural and bright final scene.
Those in the cast were: Joyce O’Brien, Averil Graham, Marjorie Francis, Jean Burgess, Elaine Clibborn, Margaret Webb, Oreti Stewart. The producer is J. Burgess. Frozen Heart In “Frozen Heart,” by Ivory Brides, the Taneatua Women’s Institute made the most of a hackneyed story. As a Belgian woman living in an era of racial hatred among enemies, Leone Gardner gave a convincing but rather too intense performance. Gladys McDonald provided an excellent foil for her as the human and humane German, and in the final scene, Jeanna Merrie, as a nun, assisted by the excellent lighting, enabled the play to conclude on a high histrionic note. The other members of the cast had good speaking voices, and their work “was clean, if not always entirely convincing.
The players were: Leone Gardner, Gladys MgDonald, Dorothy Tebbutt, Meta McGougan and Jeanne Merrie. Producer was Mrs M. Ewart.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 75, 28 July 1950, Page 5
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