THE FATAL WEDDING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8165, 23 June 1906, Page 5

THE FATAL WEDDING.

"The Fatal Wedding," although in its fifth year, is still being played throughout England, America, and Australia, and is stated to claim the unique distinction of being the most consistently successful play ever produced in Australia. In the Melbourne Theatre Royal "The Fatal Wedding" ran for over five weeks to crowded bouses, and for weeks past, it is stated, hundreds have been turned away at the Criterion Theatre, Sydney. "The Fatal Wedding" is described as a play of great heart interest, and in this lies the secret of ita popularity. It is said to appeal to the hearts of the people, and while human nature remains as it is to-day the appeal will always strike a responsive ohord. A oritid wrote of its first appearance in Melbourne:-—"The Fatal Wedding raises no abstruse psychological problems; it tarries not by the way, but goeß straight to the mark. In the lighter vein the revels of the slum children at Jessie'B surprise party, and the opportunity the scene affords for tne thirty talented children engaged for a remarkable display of dancing, singing, and marohing are amongst the features which have helped to the triumphant success of the play." Tbe piece will be staged in the Town Hall on Monday next.