Amateurs in Gisborne.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 58, 25 October 1887, Page 3

Amateurs in Gisborne.

ENGAGED." We »re platted io note that a company of local amateurs intend producing W. J. Gilbec’s grand farcical COtnedy of ’* Engaged." 'J he play has had a run of 630 nights in the Gaiety Theatre, London, and has been pronounced to be the embodiment of keen art. genuine fun, and intense modern humour. There arc fen character*, five male and five female. Jhe local caste is a strong one, and tfacompany hare been rehearsing and working up the situations all the winter, giving two and three nights a week to it. With a determination to perfect its final representation on the Oth November, they now devote three evenings a week to rehearsals on the stage, of the Theatre Koval The hero of the piece is a susceptible young fellow who has a large fortune, and has to be looked after by a keeper who enjoys £lOOO a year as long as he suec-eds in preventing him from making an undesirable marriage. In the event of his marriage the £lOOO a year goes to the hero’s uncle. Symperson. When he proposes and becomes engaged, the keeper, Belvaw. ney, has ruin staring him in the face. On the other band the uncle is delighted. The Uncle has a beautiful daughter, Minnie, to provide for. Mie is a simple little thing, “as innocent as a new laid egg," and doesn t she second her fathers plans to get her a husband, and himself the £lOOO a year. Nobody who enjoys genuine fun should miss seeing this comedy. It is in three acts, and t ikes over two and a-half hours to perform.