STAGE COMING BACK

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 39, 5 April 1935, Page 5

STAGE COMING BACK

HERE has been a lot written in the past 12 months about a theatre revival, some of it nonsense and some of it sound fact, but up to the present time New Zealand has seen little of this revival. Good companies have been sent across the Tasman in the past five years only to pack up after a few. weeks’ tour and take a sad departure. However, there are certain indications that this is changing. The company that is presenting ""Ten Minute Alibi’’ and "The Wind and the Rain" in New Zealand at present is doing splendid business and is attracting not only the old theatre-goer but the young people-the youngsters who have been brought up on a diet of talking pictures and have scarcely seen a flesh-and-blood show in their lives. Word, too, comes from Australia that regular companies for presenting English and American musical ahd "straight" plays are being organised for touring New Zealand and Australia. It would seem that the theatre is to come back into its own.