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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 17, No. 1. March 4, 1953

...And the Play

...And the Play

Bridget Boland believes in putting you on the spot. In "Cockpit," which VUG is presenting on March 25, 26, 27 and 28, she dupes her audience in a requisitioned hall in Germany (1945)—used as an assembly centre for displaced persons—and leaves them there for a couple of hours. This is high explosive stuff. An experiment in theatre which has so involved some audiences that instead of walking out they've got up and said exactly what they felt.

Several months on the West End, a special tour for the miners of South Wales and the North-east and revivals in Europe, Australia and New Zealand—not a bad record for such a provocative play. In Australia an amateur group planned a presentation of 3-4 nights, played for 34 months . . . and now V.U.C.