THE WOODS WILLIAMSON DRAMATIC COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 231, 27 October 1903, Page 3

THE WOODS WILLIAMSON DRAMATIC COMPANY.

The coming of the Woods-Williamson Dramatic Company is being eagerly! looked forward to by theatregoers, and a brilliant opening should await this clever organisation on their opening on Wednesday evening nexS. " The Gates of Bondage," which will form the initial bill, when produced in Auckland Satoiy ran for seven consecutive nighta, and, in chronicling its extraordinary success, the Auckland Star says:— " The Gates of Bondage," as adapter) by Miss Williamson, is a fiae play, acted with intelligence, deep feeling, and much care by all the principals of the Woods-Williamson Company. "The Deemster," well dramatised, forms one of the finest plays of the romantic sensational type that has ever been placed on any stage. As Dan Mylrea, Mr Woods was remarkable .... and showed cmplete mastery of the tragic side of his art. ... A real y fine pieco of work all through, MisMaud Williamson's Mona was excellent. . . . In the passage in which she learned that Dan has killed Ewan, Iter passionate grief is shown with fine and touching reality. . . . The scenery is distinctly good, and everything goes with a swing and without a noticeable hitch. ... A play and * performance of unquestionable merit, ■which call forth not only a sigh of relief but a ward of the warmest congratulation."