New Group Excels in Othello

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Title New Group Excels in Othello
Abstract/Description It was far and away the finest performance of a Shakespeare play in Sydney for many years. Even that estimate may not do full justice to May Hollinworth's devoted production and some finely tempered acting, since so much of Sydney's recent Shakespeare has been drab, opportunist, quarter-baked mummery designed merely to catch the non-critical attention of schoolchildren who pay well to see their curriculum plays in any sort of disguise. - "Othello," as Miss Hollinworth has produced it,' is Shakespeare:
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Source Sydney Morning Herald, Charles Kemp and John Fairfax, Sydney, NSW, 1842
Item URL
Page 5
Date Issued 1 April 1946
Language English
Citation New Group Excels in Othello, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April 1946, 5
Resource Identifier 64619
Dataset AusStage