Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 10, August 18th, 1948
Expected Arrivals
Expected Arrivals
On Tuesday, 24th August, to Gilbert Johnstone, producer for the VUC Drama Club, a play "Though Storms May Break" . . . both well.
This is what we hope to see in the Christchurch papers following the Inter-varsity Drama Festival in conjunction with Winter Tournament. This year the Drama Club has had the good sense to enter a team in this fairly newly established competition.
However, in usual varsity fashion, though we find there are only six days left in which to rehearse, nothing daunted they are going ahead and we hope they will sweep the boards. We note that last year OU did not enter the competition as they only had three weeks in which to practice!
After that minor digression, we will get back to our own play. Blushing beneath that title there is of course that lively play of Mr. Harry Evison's (reviewed last week).
The cast is as follows: Hank (the student who would rather play Beethoven that (figuratively) take Quebec)—Paul Treadwell; Sue (his girlfriend for whom reality is more compelling than ideals)—Baska Goodman; 1st Revolutionary (another visionary)—Gilbert Johnstone. Other odd bods in the piece are Joan Mat-tingley, Ralph Unger, Bill Sheat, and Chris Pottinger.
Otago is entering a play by Eugene O'Neill, "Ile," while no advice has been received from AUC or CUC.
The stage is set, the cast is ready, and on Tuesday, 24th August, there will be produced in the Radiant Theatre, Christchurch, a healthy child of VUC imagination which will (we hope) outweigh anything so far seen at Winter Tournament.