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'The central figure is Jessica Leonard, whose husband has been paying attentions to another woman and whose friends are advising her to bring him to his senses. The other woman appears and begs the wife to take her husband back as she is growing tired of his devotion. Thus Jessica suffers a double humiliation, and succeeds in turning the tables on both her husband and her rival.'
Source:
'Saturday to Monday', Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1933, p.10.
Production Details
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Sydney
The earliest production so far traced is by the Kooroora Dramatic Society at the Savoy Theatre in Sydney, from 2 March 1933. Newspapers describe this as the 'first performance outside Melbourne' (see 'Saturday to Monday' Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 1933, p.10), but no Melbourne production has so far been traced.
Producer: Rita Humphress.
Cast members included Kit Climson (Jessica Leonard), Ethel Humphreys (Mrss Rollason, the 'other woman'), Richard Dowse (Jessica's husband), Harry Lockyer (Michael Culver), Alice Watson ('a bespectacled feminist') (see article above).
