Oh Caesar!

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a farcical musical extravaganza, with an old motive set in new surroundings. It deals with the share taken in a modern Carnival at Rome by a party of unsophisticated tourists from scotland, who, without one another's knowledge steal off to night-club and ball-room festivities, which, as one of them safely observes "wouldna do for Peebles". The escapade of a husband temporarily separated from his wife and of a fiancee who goes off with the giddy friend of her betrothed, are complicated by the fact that, as the result of a magi draught of old italian wine, the whole party finds itself xchanging th familia gaieties of modern Carnival - time for the less usual ones of the old Roman Saturnalia, in which there take part the sinister Emperor Caesar, his pleasure-loving spouse Poppea, guards and slaves. In a manner sufficiently bewildering, but picturesquely entertaining, the action of this trance is mingled with the realities of high jinks at a fashionable hotel, where, as in the old Pink Dominos, everybody is perpetually coming across the last reveller whom he or she desires to meet. There is harm in the high-spirited mirth, nor in the brightly written songs interpolated in the spirited dialogue. Recommended for Licence E. A. Bendall