C'est Tapé La Bon

Examiner of Plays' Summary:

This is a revue in French, for performance, apparently before an audience of Belgian refugees. It is constructed on French rather than English lines, and its dialogue and negligible action consist largely of topical allusions. Its scene is laid outside a factory and much fun is made of the engagement of unlikely people for unsuitable jobs. Other fun is made of the difficulties of English speech and manners for Belgians, who however, are always recognising the help given to them by their foreign hosts. There is a 'Tipperary' sung in a language not its own there are of course many lamentations for Liege: there are patriotic and militant recitations: there is a burlesque domestic scene: there are embodiments of Namur, Brebant and Antwerp, leading up the demands of Flemish and Walloon alike for 'la famille et la sol de liberte!' it is a naïf and rather ignorantly written piece, having probably more significance for its proposed audience than it has for its English reader. It is evidently wells-intentioned even where its taste may be doubtful; but there is nothing in it that demands excision except the nasty song marked on p.19-21 which is vulgar without being funny, in its W.C. Humours for a Chef de Cabinets. This dirty ditty must be omitted: but for the rest the crude little joke is Recommended for Licence. Ernest A. Bendall.

Researcher's Summary:

No information has been found about a performance of this revue or its author.