Broadcast Plays

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 24

Broadcast Plays

World's Best Drama AMBITIOUS LONDON SCHEME Twelve great plays, representative of the world's drama through th e ages, are to be broadcast monthly j n a series by the British Broadcasting Co., London. Illustrated booklets, containing the story of the play, a list of characters and an authoritative article on the | drama of the country represented, win be published ten days before each ! broadcast. The plays are: "King Lear,” by Shakespeare. “The Betrothal.” by Materlinck (Bel. gium). "The Pretenders.” by Ibsen (Norway) ••Life’s a Dream." by Calderwi (Spain). The I'antasUcks, by Rostaaj “SakuntaJa.” by Khalidasa (India) •‘lav Gioconda,” by d'Annunsto (Italy) “The Cherry Orchard," by Tchekov (Russia). "There are Crimes and Crimes," by Strindberg (Sweden). "Minna von Barnhelm," by Lessing (Germany). "Klectra,” by Euripides (Ancient Greece). A play, by G. Bernard Shaw. With an entirely new company, that clever Chinese illusionist. Long Tack Sam, is in Sydney again at the Tivoli Theatre. The act has much that ia new in it. Others are Wayne Beemand and Alma Grace, Amoros and Janet, Barbette, the sensational trapezist, and Con Kenna and his pilot, burlesque airman; Syd. Burchall, a baritone: Irving Rose, eccentric dancer; Ivy Ivel, juvenile con tortionist. They will come to New Zealand later.