People often ask me where they would go to see a play in with a Chancellor in it. Usually they don’t seem to mind if there are also some kings and queens and robbers and dukes and ladies in waiting. If there were plots and intrigue and mistaken identity, that would be all to the good, and they would be quite content if there was an excellent script with many fine comic moments, just as long as they get to see some chancelling.
I can now report that such a play exists. As it goes by the name of Courting Temptation, and not by my suggested title Here Comes the Chancellor!, I feel it necessary to inform the public that it does indeed have a Chancellor in it. So if that is your main criterion for an enjoyable night of theatre, this is the play for you.
7.30pm, 12-15 and 18-22 September
Cloud Nine (this is what they currently call the Upper Common Room)
UCSA Building
90 Ilam Road
Tickets are $5 for the unwaged, $8 for the waged, and they can be booked ahead at bookings@dramasoc.org