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Updated: June 21, 2025
And if art would truly hold the mirror up to nature, it must reflect these greater and lesser lights that rule the day and the night. How many of the plays that divert and misinform the modern theatre-goer turn on the pivot of a love-affair, not always pure, but generally simple!
The English theatre-goer never seems to me to take kindly to medievalism kings and knights and nobles and the fifteenth century are very likely to bore him. Not that I mean to imply for a moment that the play would be a failure in point of popularity.
At the present day, if you ask the average theatre-goer about the merits of the play that he has lately witnessed, he will praise it not for its stately speeches nor its clever repartee, but because its presentation was "so natural."
It should incorporate no words, however beautiful, that are not used in the daily conversation of the average theatre-goer; it should set these words only in their natural order, and admit no inversions whatever for the sake of the line; and it should set a value on expression, never for its own sake, but solely for the sake of the dramatic purpose to be accomplished in the scene.
Whenever the spring comes round and everything beneath the sun looks wonderful and new, the habitual theatre-goer, who has attended every legitimate performance throughout the winter season in New York, is moved to lament that there is nothing new behind the footlights.
If the average theatre-goer has liked a leading actor in one piece, he will go to see that actor in the next piece in which he is advertised to appear. But very, very rarely will he go to see a new play by a certain author merely because he has liked the last play by the same author. Indeed, the chances are that he will not even know that the two plays have been written by the same dramatist.
"What difference can it possibly make whether I speak to you or not, Mr. St " "Don't!" he interrupted swiftly. "You know my name. You shall not call me by that one." Hare's neat pink face appeared at the ticket-window, for all the world like a belated theatre-goer, anxious for several in the orchestra. "Ah, Mary! There you are! Whenever you are ready "
"If my whole future were to be arranged for me to-morrow, I should want to die the day after. A whole play" Preciosa was a most persevering little theatre-goer "carried through with one stage-setting how tiresome that would be!" "Come, now," said Little O'Grady; "help the lame duck over the stile. Be a good Gowan give the poor fellow the use of your studio.
But it is of the little theatre that he must make the most beautiful picture a charming little place of festival, lying out on the shore, and looking over the sweet bay and the swelling purple islands. No theatre-goer ever looked out on a fairer scene. It encourages poetry, idleness, delicious sensual reverie.
Whenever people on the stage fail of this consistency with law, a normal theatre-goer will feel instinctively, "Oh, no, he did not do that," or, "Those are not the words she said."
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