Event Comment: Play never acted before. [This new tragedy by
MacNamara Morgan is mercilessly scourged by
Paul Hiffernan in
Tuner No 1, (21 Jan.), pp. 41-61]: To Tune it in
Lilliputian Score : @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 Lu
st. Mrs Vincent put as good a face on wanton barbarity as possible-and
Mr Sparks who can do ju
stice to a more spirited character, supported his
Arcadian Kingship with becoming equanimity...It is a Romance crush'd together without choice, unconnected and full of Exidents not Incidents.
Musidorus and
Pamela , are duplicates to
Pyrocles and
Philoclea , 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 utmo
st extent of Managerian clemency