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… A silver Eros greeted the audience, who entered to find the curtain up … We moved into moonlight and shadows, the wood; gauze folds depended and the fairies, greenish-naked, troll-like and amphibian, moved in with their unhuman voices and half-malignant kindness….Mr John Hunter did not play Puck andogynously, which as a skilled female impersonator he might have been tempted to do; instead he tumbled out of some hollow tree, snub-nosed, pendulous-lipped and top-knotted, and was authentic goblin. He bounced and flew like a cockchafer; he clamoured for Oberon's attention and ours; and he hunkered down as quiet as fungus when he wasn't wanted. For physical control, unwavering good taste, and unconquerable communicative glee, this was the best Puck one can reasonably expect to see anywhere (and one has seen several in several lands)… |
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