New Capek Play

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 412, 21 July 1928, Page 22

New Capek Play

“Adam the Creator ” Not So Good as R. U.R.

“Adam the Creator,” the new play by the Brothers Capek, which is being produced for the first time in England at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge, England, suffers by comparison with their better known plays, "R.U.R.” and “The Insect Play.” Adam destroys mankind and awakes to find himself alone. Then the voice of God tells him to create a new world. From a mould of clay he proceeds to create various types of humanity. He makes his Eve so fine a type that she will have nothing to do with him. Then he creates a super-man, who immediately elopes with Eve, so that Adam has to fall back upon a more normal wife. Ultimately he creates a fellow-crea-tor who fashions men not as individuals, but as a mass which moves in unison and whistles the “Red Flag.” Various stages pf civilisation are enacted with all sorts of advanced political ideas intermixed in confusion. The voice of God is once heard, and Adam is made to admit that he is satisfied to let things go as they are.

Beth Mackey, the charming daughter of Lady Mackey, and the late Sir John Mackey, now playing parts in J. C. Williamson stage productions, is making rapid strides in the profession she has chosen. Last year she appeared with the Muriel Starr Company, and now she is playing in “Rookery Nook,” the lively English comedy soon to come to Auckland. Miss Mackey possesses charm and ability, and promises to go far in her stage career.

The Vanbrugh Boucicault Company, which has returned to Melbourne from Adelaide, intends to present plays which are new and those which have stood the test of revival. The season will open at the Comedy Theatre on July 21 with a novelty, Frederick Lonsdale’s “The High Road.” This piece will be followed by Pinero’s “The Notorious Mrs. Kbbsmith.”

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