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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 1. February 28, 1947

—and his Lady

and his Lady

Lady Macbeth, too, I found surprising. To me she has always been a swiftly moving, well organised, and intensely efficient woman, until, of course, her breakdown. She has powerful passions, certainly, but they are exultant, rising rapidly towards intense climaxes. That was my preconceived picture of Lady Macbeth, but instead I found a slim girl with an amazingly deep voice giving slow pause and emphasis to every syllable. I cannot help feeling that had she emphasised thoughts and not words the character would have been more convincing.

It is however, only too easy to find fault with any performance. I could possibly fill another column on the way I feel Macbeth's character should develop from the simple soldier to the scheming tyrant, and how I feel that development of character was missing from the play presented at the Concert Chamber, but such a negative attitude is a poor reward for the obvious effort and sincere enthusiasm which must have gone into the production which gave me and many others an enjoyable night's entertainment.

J. R. McCreary.