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Salient: An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 5. Wednesday, June 15, 1960

[introduction]

Francis Beaumont's play "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," produced by John Dawick, opened at the Victoria University Little Theatre on Tuesday, April 26, and ran for a season of five nights. The word soon got around, after the early patrons had seen such magnificent characters as the Knight, the Citizen's Wife and Barbaroso, that here was a brilliant little show worth every penny of the admission price. Later in the season people were turned away. The "Dominion" appeared on the morning after the first night with a complimentary review highlighting the play as a burlesque. What a contrast was the "Evening Post" review with factual and grammatical errors spoiling its value as criticism.