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On Saturday evening, the favourite melo drama, Clari, was performed at the Theatre. Considering the difficulty of the piece, and the great inconvenience of the stage being so small, we are surprised that the manager should have attempted such a performance. The piece, however, went all remarkably well, and with a little more attention on the part of one or two of the performers, it will no doubt become a favourite. Mrs Cameron appeared as Clari, but she did not please us so well in that character as she did in that of Mrs. Haller, in the Stranger. If, however, we take into consideration her late severe loss, it then becomes matter of astonishment that she performed her part so well. Mrs Taylor is rapidly improving, indeed, her Vespina was excellent, and her little song of '"Love was a mischievous boy" was excellently well sung, and excellently well performed. The entrance of Clari prevents the possibility of applause from the auditors, or otherwise we fancy Vespina would have been encored half a dozen times, and be made to sing herself to sleep over and over again, somewhat similar to that celebrated performer Romeo Coates, who we recollect seeing encored in one of his dying scenes seven or eight times in one evening.
As Fidalma, Mrs Taylor was not so pleasing; she will not look like an old woman, do what she will; some thirty years hence she may attempt that character. Mrs. Brown acted the part of Ninetta. Oh, Miss Ninetta! do learn your part, and play with a little more spirit, and do not for heavens' sake again murder the
King's English! Mrs. Brown certainly has talent for the stage, but there is room both for study and improvement; on the whole, we may say her Ninetta is quite equal to her Countess Wintersen, in the Stranger. Mr. Cameron's Duke of Vivaldi was good, but Mr. Fenton's Rolamo was capital— it was really deserving of applause. The actors' drunken scene (Mr. Taylor) was excellent, and had a certain friend of ours been present, we should have called upon him to have fined Mr. Taylor the customary five shillings, for he performed his part so well, that we verily believe some were beginning to doubt whether he was acting or
not— it was truly laughable.
The afterpiece, the Rendezvous, went off as well as a performance could do, the spirit of the farce was well kept up. Mrs. Cameron's romping Sophia was to the life itself— Lucretia was well adapted for Mrs. Brown, and Mrs. Taylor as Rose was as good as she could be. Mr. Jacobs performed the part of Quake uncommonly well — there is a little too much buffoonery in his performance generally, which, if he will get rid of, he will be a credit to any theatre. Mr. Jordan's Simon was pretty fair, but he also shows too much of a sameness in his acting, and his part does not require the buffoonery he interlards it with. Messrs. Taylor, Fenton, and Lewis, went through their respective parts with life and gaiety, and contributed not a little to make the piece go off light and merry. |
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