ALLAN WILKIE SEASON
CORIOLANUS TO BE STAGED Among- the plays announced for the lirst week of the Allan Wilkie Shakesperean season, which opens -at His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday next, March 2, interest attaches principally, perhaps, to “Coriolanus,” which is a comparatively recent addition to the repertoire and has not previously been seen in Auckland. The play was revived at “The Old Vic” in London about four years ago, but although once one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works, it has of recent years suffered a somewhat inexplicable neglect—inexplicable because the name-part provides one of the most effective and spectacular roles from an acting point of view and the working out of the theme has an extraordinarily modern appeal. Swinburne considered it a masterpiece and French Republican critics have pronounced the tragedy Shakespeare’s “most perfect work of art.”
Be that as it may, the staging of a Shakespearean play new to the present generation is something of an event, and Auckland play-goers will doubtless welcome the opportunity of seeing it. Box plans for the first week of the season open at Lewis Eady’s, Ltd., today.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 15
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