Progressive Players Gateshead - All The Plays

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March or April 1930 (Precise date unknown)
The Dregs
Fred Chadwick
Synopsis not available
PP 66, Play 59
Unknown Type. First Performance Of A New Play.
Northern Area British Drama League Festival.

1930 (Precise date unknown)
Catherine Parr
Maurice Baring
Across the breakfast table, King Henry VIII and his sixth wife have a heated debate over the colour of Alexander The Great's horse.
PP 67, Play 60
Comedy, 1-Act.

1930 (Precise date unknown)
The Philanderer
George Bernard Shaw
A young womaniser wants to leave a contentious woman in order to switch his attentions to a gentle widow.
PP 68, Play 61
Comedy.

1930 (Precise date unknown)
The Dramatist
Frederick Reynolds
In the mid-19th Century, a playwright throws the schemes of an upper class lady into a state of confusion.
PP 69, Play 62
Comedy.

15 - 17 October 1930
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
George Bernard Shaw
A pirate captain plys his trade under the protection of a friendly sheik, but is brought to book by the sister-in-law of an English judge.
PP 70 (Previously produced in 1922)
Comedy.

26 - 28 November 1930
Pillars Of Society
Henrik Ibsen
A highly respected shipowner is actually guilty of dishonest business practices, and is goaded towards repentance by the arrival of people from his past.
PP 71, Play 63
Drama.
Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor from the play "Samfundets Stotter".

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