Next Producer For Dunedin Repertory Play

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 29, 30 December 1938, Page 5

Next Producer For Dunedin Repertory Play

EX’ play produced by Dutiedin Repertory Society will probably be in the hands of Miss Bessie 'Thomson, socicty’s producer since the fourth play "Dear Brutus" was presented. She is expected back home early in January after being in Englatd for the greater part of twelve months studying London technique. In England Miss Thomson took lessons with the famed MHisie Fogarty School of Dramatic Art, attended British Drama League’s producers’, classes, studied workings of various amateur societies. Largely due to Miss Thomson, the Dunedin Repertory: was established in the first place in 1932, and she was ably assisted in her campaign by Mr. A. C. Stephens, Almost entirely due to her prowess as producer, society "clicked" and never looked back. Not known yet is the society’s first production for 1939, but it is freely rumoured that it will be a dificult modern play, which recently created something of a sensation in America and England.