CULTIVATING SHAKESPEARE.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 2

CULTIVATING SHAKESPEARE.

GIRLS STAGE PLAYS.

Few people apart from educationists I recognise the splendid part played by } the schools in kindling a love for J Sh*'k »speare (says The Australasian, j Melbourne). As an example one was . privileged recently to attend the an* [ nual Shakespeare night of the students • of Warwick Girls’ School, East MaiI vern (V.) Scenes were given from J ” Hamlet,” “Julius Caesar,” “Mac- ( both,” “The Taming of the Shrew, ** i“Th e Merchant if Venice.” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” and “An You Like It.” The plays which are those j sct down for study in the ordinary year’s work, were acted with remarkable skill, in full costume, and with delightful scenic effect o and prfp rties. In such difficult passage, as the quarrel scene from “Julius Caesar’ and the trial scene from “The Merchant of Venice,” the actresses showed reI markable appreciation of the require- | rnents of their parts. The spectacle of girls wearing wigs and beards in representation of a Shvlock or a Jaqucs prompted the reminder that in Shakei*peare’« dav there were no actresses, and that all the feminine parts were taken by boys.