Shakespeare Plays.

Radio Record, 6 May 1938, Page 36

Shakespeare Plays.

When the regular series of Shakespearian productions presented by fhe Australian DGroadecasting Commission ceased at the end of last winter, twenty-five of the thirty-seven plays had been produced during 1986 and 1937. The remaining twelve plays will be produced during the season which began on April 8, thus completing the whole cycle of the plays by our greatest dramatist. The time of presentation has heen changed from alternate Sunday afternoons to alternate Sunday evenings about 11 o’clock the plays began on April 3 with the tragedy of

os "Coriolanus," which was succeeded in turn by the following plays :-April 17, Melbourne, "Twelfth Night"; May 1, Sydney, "The Tempest." Next on the list are the following: May 15, Melbourne, "Anthony and Cleopatra"; May 29, Sydney, "Timon of Athens’; June 12, Melbourne, "Henry VI," Part 1; June 26, Sydney, "Henry VI," Part 2; July 8, Melbourne, "Comedy of Errors"; July 17, Sydney, "Merry Wives of Windsor’; August 7, Melbourne, "Pericles-Prince of Tyre’; August 21, Sydney, "Measure for Measure." It will be noted that Henry VI is listed as being in two parts only, whereas Shapespeare has three parts, This

follows a precedent set by the BBO, who arranged the presentation of this very long play in two sections, confining the material used to the direct story of the reign of Henry VI.