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Monday, May 8, 1972

BRITISH TROUPE TO PERFORM AT CITY HALL

Arranged By The Urban Council

The Royal Lyceum Theatre Company of Edinburgh, under the auspices

of the Urban Council and the British Council, will give four performances

at the City Hall Concert Hall during their coming tour to the East.

The Company, which was first opened in 1883, will present two

plays from their repertory.

The first play, to be performed at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 11,

and Friday, May 12, is John Barton's adaptation of scenes from three

historical plays of Shakespeare Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V.

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This adaptation, entitled "WHEN THOU ART KING", depicts Shakespeare's

most famous comic character, that "fat rogue" Falstaff, and his hilarious

escapades with his drinking companion the young Prince Hal (Prince of Wales,

and the future King Henry V) in the taverns of Cheapside.

The second play, a modern one, "THE BIRTHDAY PARTY" by Harold Pinter,

will be performed on Saturday, May 13, and Sunday, May 14, at 8 P..

Britain's young proletarian dramatist,

Pinter writes moving

allegories about the underprivileged.

He began as an actor, and is a product of the Royal Academy of

Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Both Shakespeare

and Pinter represent, therefore, the actor-dramatist tradition of the English

stage.

"The Birthday