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...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...
...incompatibility of Greek and barbarian nature is the theme of the play and the source of all the sorrows of Jason and Medea. Jason has married Medea, but the Greeks ostracize him because of his barbarian wife. Medea affects in vain the Grecian dress and Grecian accomplishments: she remains hopelessly barbarian. Finally Medea, despised by her husband, repudiated by her children, and exiled by the country, becomes possessed with jealousy and fury, sets the palace aflame, kills her children and departs. The fifth act is an epilogue. The cast of the play is as follows: Kreon, Mr. Adolph Winds Kreusa...
...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...