Word: medea
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This is the third year that the company has given a play in Boston for the benefit of the Museum. Last year Grill-parzer's "Medea" was very successfully presented. This year the company comes under a new director, Mr. Heinrich Conried having retired from the leadership during the past year...
...total receipts from the performance of Grillparzer's "Medea," presented by Mr. Conried under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein in the Colonial Theatre, Boston, were $950. After deducting the necessary expenses for advertising, hiring the theatre, etc., $400 remained, and this amount will be presented to the Germanic Museum...
...very successful performance of Franz Grillparzer's "Medea" was given under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, in the Colonial Theatre yesterday afternoon before a highly appreciative audience. Mr. Couried's Irving Place theatre Company gave a representation of the great German tragedy, which proved that this work can hold and strongly move an Anglo-Saxon audience...
...acting of the leading parts was excellent. On the acting of the character of Medea, depends very largely the success or failure of the play; and Miss Marie Immisch proved herself fully equal to her very exhausting and difficult part. Her rendering was throughout a highly emotional, rather than a finished intellectual one, and she was at her best in depicting the struggle between her mother's love and her desire for revenge; a struggle which ends in the murder of her two children. She expressed well the barbarian nature which is the under lying cause of the unhappiness...
...GERMAN PLAY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GERMANIC MUSEUM. "Grillparzer's Medea.'" Colonial Theatre, Boston, 2.30 P. M. Tickets on sale at Herrick's, at Thurston's, and at the Theatre...