THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2196, 10 March 1881, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

« ROMEO AND JULIET." This monk charming play was very artistically rendered last night at the Theatre Royal. It is a favourite with playgoers, both young and old, and certainly the main character has never been put on the Ohristohurch boards with more graoe and power than last night. Miss Boaudet has before shown us that the range of her abilities cover the ground from light comedy to tragedy ; out never have the public had suoh an opportunity of seeing her display the full icope of her mental repertoire. The impersonation was thoroughly refined, artistio and, in the more intense scenes, she threw into her love and despair a fire whioh deeply touched the house. Her horror at hearing of Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment, the fancied picture of herself waking up in the tomb with all its terrors, and finally the death ■oene, were finely rendered. The audience called her repeatedly before the curtain, and oertainly no actress has here deserved better the enthusiasm of hor hearers. Horr Bandmann made the most of the subsidiary part of Meroutio. Mr Reynolds' Romeo was played as we should havo expected him to play it. The tenderer passages were wanting in softness, but, taken all round, it was a soholarly rendering. The nurse was taken by Miss Orawford, but we oan hardly congratulate her on her success, there being something in the impersonation smacking of the old woman of the pantomime. Mr Nunn's apothecary was good, as woi the Lady Capulet of Miss Hathaway. To-night " The Lady of Lyons" will bo played.