Arnold Bennett Writes New Play

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 792, 12 October 1929, Page 26

Arnold Bennett Writes New Play

Camiot Get His Best Work Produced Arnold Bennett, who recently complained, “I am tired of the English theatre, having written four plays which it is impossible to get on the English stage,” is to have a new play produced in Manchester. He is sending a copy of his play, which at present is unnamed, to Sidney Young, managing director of the Rusholme Repertory Theatre, Manchester, who produced Mr. Bennett’s play “Flora.” Unless it presents insurmountable difficulties it will be produced at Rusholme, says Mr. Young. One of Mr. Bennet’s unproduced plays is “Don Juan,” and in a letter yesterday to Mr. Young, Mr. Bennett said, “This I will have first produced in Dondon, or not at all.” Mr. Bennett made his complaint regarding the failure of producers to appreciate his plays during an interview in Copenhagen last month. “My very best—‘Don Juan’ —I am not able to place,” he said. “Everybody in Britain cries out for something new, but when it is offered it is denied acceptance as producers are afraid. "The English theatre people today will have nothing to do with new plays, while all the new ones I have seen in the past few years have been, in my opinion, second rate.”