Touring Shakespeare
; MR. ALLAN WILKIE AND HIS COMPANY ARE TO PLAY ROTORUA AND GISBORNE
TRANSPORT IN CARS
Residents of many of the smaller towns of the North Island are to be visited by Allan Wilkie's Shakespearean Company.
This morning the company left for I Whangarei, where a short season will j begin this evening. Hamilton will be played early next , week and then Rotorua and towns as far afield as Gisborne. Mr. Wilkie has chartered a fleet of cars to transport the company. Last evening, after the final performance of “Hamlet,” a large audience gave the players an enthusiastic farewell. The ladies of the company were presented with bouquets and in a short speech Mr. Wilkie said that he hoped to return to Auckland in about 18 months’ time, when several other of Shakespeare’s plays would be pre- i sented. One of them will be “CorioJanas.” i
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 1
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147Touring Shakespeare Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 1
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