PRIESTLEY'S PROFESSOR
‘HE LINDEN TREE, by J. B. Priestley, will be heard from the YAs and 4YZ on Monday, April 1. In this play the problem Priestley examines is that of the retiring age. Professor Linden lectures in history in the North Midlands manufacturing town of Burmanley, and the conflict of the play develops as his family gathers to celebrate his 65th birthday. The University authorities have asked him to retire, but he feels that he has many years of useful and active life ahead of him. His feeling is strengthened by the fact that it is 1947, when Britain badly needs teachers and trained men. Discussing his actions are his family-Mrs. Linden, who feels that he should retire and have more time for his own life, and the Linden children, who are typical products of the war, from the cynical young business man to the woman who has changed her country and her faith in the unsettled years. Tree for the NZBS. Roy Leywood plays William Austin produced The Linden. Professor Linden, and Davina Whitehouse is Mrs, Linden, while David Littin, a visitor from Whangarei, plays Rex Linden, and Dorothy Campbell is Jean. Linden. Other parts are played by Dorothy Munro, Wendy Gibb, Diana Peters and Eileen Teward.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 15
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209PRIESTLEY'S PROFESSOR New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 15
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