Word: staging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aisle in their limp and languid manner. We are happy to be able to state that during the whole performance they were very quiet and orderly - much more so, in fact, than many other portions of the audience. Mr. Wilde addressed them when he first came on the stage, in a very pleasant and familiar manner. He said, glancing down at the fantastic semi-circle, in front...
...heart. I'd ruther hear him in the original, like my friend Salviny; but you've got to excuse me now; I'm goin' to lecture before the Woman Suffrage Society with my friend Ker'nel Higginson - I'm goin' to carry the pitcher of water on the stage" - and, rubbing his ancient beaver on his shiny coat-sleeve, Dan'l bowed the reporter...
When the "OEdipus Tyrannus" of Sophocles was given last winter in Sanders Theatre by George Riddle and students of Harvard college, it was appropriate that the play, being a representation of the drama in its earliest stages, and given almost exclusively for the advantage of the students, should be rendered in the original Greek. But when the same play is given at a city theatre by professional actors, and for the benefit of the public at large, that the principal part should be delivered in Greek and the rest in English, seems but a poor and incongruous imitation...
...room for improvement. In her make-up she looked altogether too young for the mother of OEdipus, and her face appeared too dark to produce a pleasing effect upon the eye. Her facial expression also was poor, and during the greater part of the time she was on the stage her action was not nearly so strong as the character demanded. Her enunciation was indistinct in many places, and throughout she made use of an assumed tragic voice that was not natural. In her final scene, however, just before Jocasta leaves the stage for the last time, she gave...
...after the experience of an evening's performance, much improvement will undoubtedly be shown in the subsequent representations. That the performance was received with much favor was shown by the fact that after the final scene the audience remained seated until Mr. Riddle and Miss Cayvan reappeared on the stage, when they were greeted with round after round of applause...