The Illusionists (play)

The Illusionists is a 1955 stage play by Morris West about an advertising agent who longs to paint.

[1] The play was highly commended in the 1955 playwriting competition from the Playwrights' Advisory Board that was won by Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and The Torrents.

[6] Reviewing the 1955 radio production, The Age called it a "connected and believable story... a nice piece of work".

[7] The play was presented at the Theatre in the Round in London in June 1957 starring Bruce Stewart and directed by Leila Blake.

The Daily Telegraph said "neither the novelty of the setting nor the blank verse - some of it rather purple - could disguise that there was practically nothing new to be said.