THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2358, 24 October 1881, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

" Macbeth" was produced on Saturday evening by Mis« Pomeroy and her talented company most successfully. Of Miss Pjmeroy's rendering of L»dy Macbeth it is impossible to apeak too highly. It «bs not, as is too often the case, a brawling loudvoiced termagant, but an ambitious woman of determined will, bent on securing honor and power for her husband and herself at any price. But while Mits Pomeroy gave ut a life-like pourtrayal of this, she did not omit to bring out with equal faithfulness and artistic force tho more womanly traits of the part. This was strikingly exemplified in the banquet scene, and m the most expressive and effootive conclusion of the fourth act, where the deep and deadly sin of which they have been guilty presses so heavily on tho ambitious pair. In the banquot scene Mies Pomeroy, by a subtle piece of by-play, showed the solicitude of the woman for her husband in his paroxysm of fear, contending with tho desire to shield the partner in her guilt from discovery by his friends. This was admirably playod, and is one of the many new points which were brought out throughout Miss Pomeroy's splendid impersonation. To give in detail all the parts of the play in which Miss Pomeroy achieved undeniable success would be to extend these remarks to an inordinate length. There" are just two which, however, deserve more than passing notioe. Tho first of these was the scene with Macbeth whero Lady Macbeth seeks to " sorew his courage to the sticking place." In this most exaoting soene Miss Pumeroy played with an immense amount of dramatio force, coupled with a thorough and complete realisation of the author's meaning. She showed the gradual but sure domination of a powerful over a weaker mind, culminating in the doing of the deed, and in this rendering were pourtrayed most skilfully the various phases of passion which animate her. The other point made was in tho sleep - walking scene, which was terrible in its intensity. Miss Pomeroy's Lady Macbeth as a whole was a finished dramatic picture, complete in all its details and startling by its lifelike fidelity and intense power. She was called before the curtain at the end oE each act in which she appeared. Mr Holloway's Macbeth was also a performance of very high merit. Careful and scholarly, his rendeiing was full of poetic beauty. Be was admirable in the soene before referred to with Lady Macbeth, but it was in the banquet teen a that Mr Holloway achieved his greatest triumph. This for Macbeth is a very trying portion of the play, as it is very difficult to resist the temptation to exaggerate. Mr Holloway, however, played throughout in the spirit of a true artist, end he is to be highly congratulated upon having achieved a triumph worthy to stand equal with that of tho star. The fight at the end of the piece was well carried out. Mr Fleming deserves very great credit for his Macduff. One is so accustomed to see this gentleman rather as a carpet knight, or more properly speaking, squire of dames, that a rugged and heavy oharaoter like Macduff would seem to be out of his line. This was not the ease, however, and Mr Flemming played it throughout with much success. He wta especially good in the scene where he receives the news of the murder of his wife and children. Mr Hoskins played the somewhat small part of the king in his usual artistic manner, and Mr Hamilton made a good Banquo. Mr Wallace's make-up and acting for the first witch was excellent, and the music, as a whole, was fairly rendered, that allotted to Hecate being somewhat beyond Miss Grey. The other parts were remarkably well filled, and the piece wont excellently throughout. To-night the season will close, Miss Pomeroy will take her benefit, appearing oe Viola in " Twelfth Night." It is to be hoped that there will be a bumper house to wish her hon voyage.