THEATRICAL NOTES.
-the woman in the CASE.”
Gisborne theatregoers are promised an exceptional dramatic feat in October, when that remarkable play “The Woman in the Case” will be produced at His Majesty’s Theatre. Clyde Fitch was a skilled master of technique. He knew how to build a play with a view to bringing out its greatest effects and possibilities. In “The Woman in the Case” the dramatist has daringly used his materials. He has taken two women of entirely opposite types and characteristics. He has placed them one against the other — one with all the womanly traits and the best that is in her sex; the other, a veritable she-devil who seeks the life of an innocent man in the frenzy of revenge. Each represents the entirely opposite point of view of womanhood. And so cleverly has the playwright done his work that each lias the sympathy of the audience. Both are actuated by the one soul-stiriing passion for tho man they love, and from this point of viow alone they stand on the same ground. The characters of Claire Forster and Margaret Rolfe are two and the most vivid creations of the dramatist’s mind.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3294, 12 August 1911, Page 4
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