Abstract

Drama

The article presents information about various theatrical productions. "Late One Evening" is well acted, well produced, and manages through a movie technique and a series of tense episodes, to hold one's interest. As a play it is ridiculous, a miscellany of familiar situations loosely connected ending in bathos, with a denouement in which the announcement that the heroine is to have a child recaptures her errant author-husband-and changes everything. A Situation in the play "A Good Woman, Poor Thing,"--that provided by a sophisticated couple who cannot get along because each is too ready to allow the other his freedom-- is hardly more conventional than the situation in the other play. It is, however, played for the most part in a slovenly, undistinguished way probably caught, in part at least, from the slovenly writing and slovenly construction.