REPERTORY PRODUCTION
Harley Granville Barker's "'The Voysey Inheritance,” a play in five acts, will lie staged for tlie first time in New Zealand by lite 'Wellington Repertory Tlieatre in tin- concert chaniber of the Town Hall, Wellington, for a season of five nigiits, . beginning on Saturday. Tile director is Mr. Leo du Chateau.
Mr, Granville-Barker is pre-emineiit.ty a titan of ideas, and lie is also profoutally interested in character. His- method o f creating characters, however, is not like I hut of the dramatist —Shakespeare, for example—who uses tlie quick flash of action. The characters of "The Voysey Inheritance” number 18, and among those selected to play these characters are Cornelia MeGreevy, Nona Goulding, I'lu Haneoeii, Daisy Isaacs, I’at Gledhill, Natalie Whiteman, Josephine Hailey, Margaret Gwynn. Ronald Kennedy, Cedric Gardiner, P, B. Benliam, G. <*. Cooper, Arthur Meany, Cecil Burgess, Liuils.-iy At-low, IL J. Sleptue, and R. Giikison.
Nancy Hotter is the prompter. Pauline Shotlander is in charge of the wardrobe, and .Mary Richmond the properties.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 5
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165REPERTORY PRODUCTION Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 190, 8 May 1940, Page 5
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