"Macbeth" from 1YA on December 19

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 22, 14 December 1928, Page 6

"Macbeth" from 1YA on December 19

ME. J. F. MONTAGUE and his company of players will present Shakespeare’s great tragedy, ‘"‘Macbeth," at 1Y¥A on Wednesday, ' 19th, and this production, with incidental and entr’acte music by the Auckland Trio, will form the entire programme for that night. This undertaking marks a new and striking departure in play production on the air, and the innovation will be awaited with marked interest by Shakespearean students and others throughout the Dominion. Mr. Montague has a very high reputation as a Shakespearean scholar and producer, and though he has received many high compliments for previous full-night presentations, he expresses the firm conviction that in this play his company will touch high-water mark, and that even those who are ‘not usually interested in Shakespeare will find themselves agreeably surprised and interested in hearing the striking and sonorous lines of this immortal tragedy. "Macbeth" is Shakespeare’s shortest play, and therefore very little "cutting" will be necessary in the presentation. The characters of "lady Macbeth," the greatest of all Shakespeare’s tragic women. characters, will be in the hands of Miss Daphne Knight, than whom there is no more capable exponent of tragic roles in New Zealand, and she will be supported by a strong cast of experienced players, including Mr. J. M. Clark, Mr. Culford Bell, and Mr. Montague himself, with many other well-known players.