THE SHAKESPEAREAN SEASON.

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 58, 6 September 1916, Page 3

THE SHAKESPEAREAN SEASON.

A Shakespearean season will be inaugurated at the Grand Opera House on Saturday evening next, when the talented Shakespearean actors, Mr. Allan Wilkie and Miss ' Frediswyde HunterWatts, and a specially chosen company, which will include several new English artists and a number of old favourites, will make their first apnearance in Wellington. The success of the two leading artists and their talented company since they arrived in Melbourne eight months ago has been remarkable.. When Mr. Wilkie and Miss Hunter-Watts made their first appearance in that city in "The Merchant of Venice" to theatregoers generally they were an unknown quantity, but as the season progressed a series of successes followed, and many acclaim them as among the best exponents of Shakespeare's works who have ever visited Australasia. Their experiences of Melbourne were repeated in Sydney, Adelaide, and Auckland. The season will be limited to seventeen nights. The programme for the first six nights is as follows: —Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, 9th, llth, and 12th September, Shakespeare's sublime tragedy, "Hamlet"; Wednesdy, Thurasday, Friday, and matinee" (Saturday), "Tlie Merchant of Venice," and then, in the order named, will come "Twelfth Night," "Romeo and Juliet," "As You Like It," and " Othello." The plans for the first two productions will open at the Bristol to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock. ,