Zira

Zira (1905), a play by J. Hartley Manners and Henry Miller. [ Princess Theatre, 128 perf.] Seeing a chance for a better life, Hester Trent (Margaret Anglin) takes the place of a woman she believes has died. This leads to complications, especially when the other woman turns up alive, but also leads to a happy romance. Based on Wilkie Collins's The New Magdalen, which had already been dramatized with marked success in 1873, the new version produced by Miller was reset in contemporary South Africa during the Boer War.