*p1754 01 22 cg Philoclea. Parts-Barry, Sparks, Smith, Ridout, Usher, Mrs Bland, Mrs Vincent, Miss Kennedy, Mrs Griffith, Miss Nossiter. [ Basilius-Sparks; Pyrocles-Barry; Musidorus-Smith; Amphialus-Usher; Philanax-Ridout; Euristus-Anderson; Dametas-Redman; Thyrsis-Holtam; Gynecia-Mrs Bland; Pamela-Miss Kennedy; Philoclea-Miss Nossiter; Cecropia-Mrs Vincent; Eugenia-Mrs Griffith; Phebe-Miss Mullart; <i>Prologue</i>-Sparks; <i>Epilogue</i>-Mrs Bland [[Edition of 1754).]*c1754 01 22 cg Play never acted before. [This new tragedy by $MacNamara Morgan= is mercilessly scourged by $Paul Hiffernan= in <i>Tuner No 1</i>, (21 Jan.), pp. 41-61]: To Tune it in <i>Lilliputian Score</i> : @Such sighing@Such Billing@Such Flashing@Such Heeling@And Dying@And Killing@And Dashing@And Kneeling@Such Rizing@Surprizing!@Such Falling@And Bawling@Such Attitudes@And Flattitudes@Were ne'er exhibited before.@ In the representation $Mr Barry= spared no pains; $Miss Nossiter= and $Mr Smith= strained hard-$Mrs Bland=, as far as her part exposed itself, did it with alacrity, but vanished abruptly in a storm of Lust. $Mrs Vincent= put as good a face on wanton barbarity as possible-and $Mr Sparks= who can do justice to a more spirited character, supported his <i>Arcadian Kingship</i> with becoming equanimity...It is a Romance crush'd together without choice, unconnected and full of Exidents not Incidents. <i>Musidorus</i>r and <i>Pamela</i>r , are duplicates to <i>Pyrocles</i>r and <i>Philoclea</i>r , which lengthen by so much the play, with repetition of the same dull nauseous tale of love, stirr'd up now and then by a bounce and a cracker-many persons come on we know not why, and disappear we know not wherefore....This new piece is an outlaw from all rules of Criticism; the Unities of Time, Place, and Action are unobserv'd; Plot, Moral, Verisimilitude, or even Probability unknown: many scenes bid defiance to possibility....$Mr Rich= stopp'd at no expence as to the Dresses and Decorations, and reprieving the play's duration to the utmost extent of Managerian clemency.