Comedy
'THE SEA IN A SHELL'
A Study in Conversation by LANCE SlEVEKING
Characters :
Walter Dieaway , a Very Young Man
Mrs. Dieaway, his Mother
Colonel George Black , an Old Friend
Miss Rymmage, a Brilliant Business Women and Gilbert Flavington , the well-known Poet
THIS ' study in conversation ' offers variations on the theme that imagination, safe enough for poets, is dangerous stuff for colonels, business women, old ladies, and young men. The sounds to be heard by a sensitive ear from a sea-shell provide a means of test. It is not the poet who hears most or is best pleased by the experiment.
Tragedy
' MARKHEIM'
A Play
Adapted by URSULA BRANSTON from the story by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Markheim. The Money Lender
The Stranger
The Maidservant
THIS short play, adapted from the story by Robert Louis Stevenson , presents the drama of conflicting desires in the soul of Markheim. Good intentions and evil deeds war for supremacy. He murders an old antique dealer for money, and the spirit of evil promises him a way of release by yet more crimes. Markheim finds his solution and the play its surprise ending in one decisive dramatic act of will.
The Cast of both Plays includes :
Eric Anderson , Gladys Young , Gordon McLeod , Violet Marquesita , Alfred Gray , Francis L. Sullivan , Christopher Christian , Alec Macdonald ,
Ethel Lodge , Harold Scott
Both Plays produced by LANCE SIEVEKING