FRENCH MELODRAMA.
Zola's play, "Therese Raquin," which was written in 1870, was revived by the People's National Theatre recently when London theatregoers saw a translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos under the titlef of "Thou Shalt Not." When it was first produced in Paris, "Therese Raquin" was received with boos and hisses, but as one critic put it, now it shocks nobody. The story concerns a young wife who conspires with her lover to murder%er husband by drowning; but with this crime between them happiness is impossible, and when their paralysed mother-in-law shows signs of regaining her power to divulge their secret, the guilty pair commit suicide. Cathleen Nesbitt portrayed the wife and Henry Oscar the lover in the National Theatre's production; Nancy Price as the paralysed old woman gave a sound performance, standing as a terrifying avenger over the bodies of the pair.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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144FRENCH MELODRAMA. Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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