THE WOODS WILLIAMSON DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 229, 24 October 1903, Page 2

THE WOODS WILLIAMSON DRAMATIC COMPANY.

, "THE QA.TBB 0¥ BONDAGE." [ Much interest is being manifested in f the dramatic season to be inaugurated » at the Theatre Royal on Wodnesdav * evening next by the Woods Williamson ' Company. Mr Alfred Woods, who has ' deservedly earned the distinction of beiog Australia's greatest actor, and the well-known and equally papular ' English actress, Miss Maud William-! s r 'U, together with the thirty members of their dramatic organisation, will bei , seen on Wednesday evening in one of , the most powerful plays of modern ' times, " The Gates of Bondage," Miss Maud Williamson's dramatisation of ' Hall Oaine's romantic story " The 1 Deemster." Itx sensitions are powerful, its incidents enthralling, while it adapts itSßlf readily to elaborate and effective mounting, consequently playi goers may rely upon a production seldom seen in these pirts. The Auckland Star says: -" Mr Woods' greatest effort, perhaps, was in the fourth act, where, cursed, outcast, exiled forever, the wrenched soul stricken man pours fourth his almost delirious yearnings that his solitude may be broken by a human voice, the touch of a human hand. Ic was a picture that will not soon be forgotten, and which is worthy to rank with the finest ht'strionio efforts yeS made on the Australian stage." In referring to Miss Williamson the paper goes on to say: "It is safe to assume that Miss Williamson is fond j of the part of Mona. She plays the character in a way that it would he difficult to improve upon. Forceful, • but never overstrung, the actrecs be-1 came the living embodiment of the : Mona the novelist has drawn, and the • skill and artistic finish with which the < powerful conflict of emotions was de- ' picted was one of the most effective ] things in the play; her heartbroken ] prayer to be forgiven for cursing her J brother's murderer was most touchinc, and reached every heart," The box plan for the season will be t on view at the Colonial Piano Oom- c pany this morning, ■