"Oliver Cromwell" at 1YA.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 12, 5 October 1928, Page 14

"Oliver Cromwell" at 1YA.

OHN DRINKWATER’S great historical play, "Oliver Cromwell" (in 8 scenes) will be presented at 1YA on Wednesday, October 10, by Mr. J. F. Montague and his company of players. "Cromwell" is undoubtedly John Drinkwater’s masterpiece and many of the great | characters of the period, besides Cromwell himself, live again in this truly grent play-John Hampden, Henry Ireton, General Fairfax, Charles I, Cromwell’s mother, and many others are drawn with marked fidelity by this master hand. This is undoubtedly the most ambitious play presentation yet made on the air in New Zealand, and under the capable direction of such an experienced producer as Mr. Montague it cannot fail to be a pronounced success. The cast will be a very strong one, and will include Rev. George Coats, Mr. Culford Bell (Charles I), Mr. Arthur Gladfield, Mr. Montagu Steele, Mr. Montague (Cromwell), Mr. Cyril Seaward, Mr. Jack Gordon, Miss Una Norwood, Miss Ena Avenell, and a host of others. The play is in prose, not in blank verse, and the scenes are set in Cromwell’s home at Ely, the Chamber of the House of Commons, with the Commons in session, the field of Naseby, Hampton Court, and Whitehall, where Charles was publicly executed in January, 1649. Every scene has a thrill as the great actors in this moving drama of English history come and go and "in their habit as they lived." Every listener-in should note the date of this stupendous production-Wednesday, October 10.