The Petrified Forest

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The Petrified Forest (1935), by American playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood. The character of the play, Alan Squire, an unsuccessful, highly cultured poet, wanders wearily over the Arizona desert, symbolizing the sense of spiritual disillusionment out of which the entire drama grows.

Presented by the New Theatre, produced by Winifred Curtin in the Library Theatre. With Beryl Green, Charles Marais, Julius Kaplan, Sid Hossy.

Sources

World Drama, by Allardyce Nicoll. Harrap, 1949.

South African Opinion, 3(1):23, 1946.


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