Body-Snatching Play For Dunedin Repertory

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 32, 20 January 1939, Page 5

Body-Snatching Play For Dunedin Repertory

JDUNEDIN- Repertory Society’s anticipations. of "creating samething like a sensation ‘in: -Dunedin" with its next play;« have every possibility of being fulfilled. Play selected is the celebrated James Bridie’s: "The Anatomist,’ based on the body-snatching ‘interludes of the infamous Burke and Hare who shocked the world ‘in the early part of last century. This is entirely different from anything the society has attempted in the past, and reall opens a new field. Society has led the way for some years in presenting "something different." Doubtiess the venture-wiil be watched with interest by similar societies elsewhere, Casting is virtually completed, and the play will be presented late in March of early in Apyvil, Production will be in the hends otf Miss Ngaio Marsh, One imagines a play of this type will be meat and drinik to her.