SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
The Town Hall. was packed to its fullest capacity last evening when tlie Shakespeare Pageant and scenes were repeated in aid of the Red Cross Funds. If anything, this last performance was superior to the first, all. taking part in it having -become better acquainted .with the characters interpreted. The different- scenes were most vigorously applauded, those taking part in them being recalled before the curtain. One of the chief characteristics noticed was the complete detachment from their surroundings by^those taking part, in the pageant. They seemed to move each lii the atmosphere of the period of the play represented, -beings/of other times long since forgotten, and times, too, fairy times, that never were, yet are living and sentient. All this bespoke highly intelligent training on the one. hand by Mrs. Hannah .and willing obedience and an artistic sense of the fitness of things on the other. The management, too, was excellent in every respect. Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Liverpool were present last evening.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 7
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