Great War Theatre

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is an allegory, and like most modern allegories lacks altogether the lucidity and precision of the old examples Old Mother Budd had found an abandoned baby fifteen years before whom she called Claud. He brings in a chrysalis and says he found it in the Dead Man's Cave; whither he returns. It then appears that he is the son of Queen Night, stolen by Dominic, Prince of Darkness because he had been rejected by her, and is therefore really the Prince of Light. In the next scene the Queen, as a penance for pride, is made to go in rags to the cave, where Claud is tending the mummified Peace and Charity, buried for thousands of years. There is then an auction scene, by way of comic relief, with allusions to Mrs Pankhurst and so forth, at which Peace and Charity are sold, Claud bidding his mother's kingdom. Meanwhile they are brought to life by electricity. Faith, Hope, Dawn and the like play their parts. As apparently the play is to be produced under clerical auspices I presume the meaning of the allegory is not mimical to orthodoxy. Precisely what that is eludes me but it can be safely Recommended for Licence. G. S. Street

Licensed On: 18 Feb 1916

License Number: 70

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British Library Reference: LCP1916/3

British Library Classmark: Add MS 66124 R

Performances

Date Theatre Type
19 Feb 1916 Holy Trinity Parish Hall, Church Lane, East Finchley Unknown Licensed Performance