PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 470, 16 May 1865, Page 4

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

Las r night, the new sensation drama, " The Carpenter of Kouen," was repeated with renewed success. Tho highly melodramatic effects wore made the most of, and tlie exceedingly skilful arrangement of the various tableaux together with the new scenery, commanded the most marked manifestations of pleasure on the part of the audience. The drama itself is of the most approved Surrey type, startling and thrilling, with a great deal of patriotic sentiment, which is very eil'ectivelv rendered by Mr. Edwards, who plays the part of Marteau the Car-

■petiter. The story runs that this artizan had a •wife, rwho was murdered daring the bloody evenujg of Saint Bartholomew, that his daughter is persecuted by the passion of an infamous noble. This daughter, however, is married to another young noble, -whom, the Carpenter makes doubly noble, by taking him for an apprentice. Mr. Edwards looks every inch the stalwart and proletarian oitrricr. The Madeleine ot Miss Juno is not a part that takes that lady's powers, but she goes through it easily and gracefully. Mr. Daniels plays the part of JN"ykin, a French bumpkin, with great humour. Mr. Cox as the infamous Saubigue, Duke of Pouen, played exceedingly well, and Miss Corcoran as the charming and pretty Soubrette, played with great piquancy. Miss Grant, and Mr. West played the part of a querulous old couple, with much point find truthfulness. The scene effects were something not usual. Tho lack of numbers on the stage was adequately supplied by a very good representation of a crowd in the distance, to which the finale the ducal pander is found as a sort of appendix hanging on a gibbet. This sensation drama is a very excellent specimen of what can bo effected by such resources as are to bo found in a remote colony where theatrical appliances, as well as histrionic ability must for a considerable period be very limited. It is announced for repetition until further notice.