DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1933, Page 13

DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE.

_ Those who were unfortunate in: not seeing Dame Sybil Thorndike and her talented English company at the Grand Opera House some weeks ago will be given a turther opportunity, for the company: is to play a «hort return season commending on March 2. Two plays will be performed, "Madame Plays Nap" and "The Medea" of Euripides, the former an hilarious comedy of the Napoleonic days'and the latter the greatest of tSe • Greet tragedies. "The Medea" will be .tf|form« ed- at a matinee performance only* "Madame Plays Nap" has long been considered one of the great comedies of th« world. No other play has so captured the spirit of the Court life of France in the days of_ the great Napoleon, with, its intrigue, its amours, its jealousies, and,tn«i persistency of the ambitious to bel successful socially. As Henriette, Dame Sybil, when she! played in 'Madame Plays Nap" during the opening "season in Wellington, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the greatest actresses who had ever played before a Wellington audience. She is fortunate in having as the great Napoleon her husband, Mr. Lewis Casson, whose irepresentation of that character is recognised as one of the most remarkable seen on any stage, the result of a close study of Napoleon. The other characters o£ th« play are taken by actors, and actresses who in every way aljpw Dame . Sybil Thorndike and Mr. Lewis Casson everj; opportunity to bring out to the full' the spirit of the play. '.'"•'■■' /