STUDENTS’ DRAMATIC SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 10

STUDENTS’ DRAMATIC SOCIETY

The Otago University Dramatic Society for its annual play has chosen A, A. Milne’s ‘ The Dover Road.’ Like the great majority of creations from . this whimsical pen, the piece is pure comedy in its treatment, though it is not without a serious theme. The scene is laid in a house on the highway from London to Dover, the route followed by eloping couples bound for the Continent. Its proprietor is that type of character impossible outside of Mr Milne’s pages—a philanthropist whose hobby is teaching men; and women object lessons for their own good. In due course the patients begin to roll in, a pair of husbands with each other’s wives, who have had care-fully-arranged breakdowns in their respective cars. Iff this amateur reformatory they are detained until they have had time to reconsider their hasty decisions. It is a conventional theme, treated with the refreshing originality characteristic of this playwright. The cast, trained by Miss Bessie Thomson, will be as follows;—Anne, Miss Isobel Newlands; Eustasia, Miss Margot Garrett; Dominic, Mr Bruce M'Kenzie; Leonard, Mr Russell Napier; Latimer, Mr Lester Moller; Nicholas, Mr Wyvern De Clive Lowe.