PERFORMANCE OF "MEDEA"

A very successful performance of Franz Grillparzer's "Medea" was given under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, in the Colonial Theatre yesterday afternoon before a highly appreciative audience. Mr. Couried's Irving Place theatre Company gave a representation of the great German tragedy, which proved that this work can hold and strongly move an Anglo-Saxon audience.

The acting of the leading parts was excellent. On the acting of the character of Medea, depends very largely the success or failure of the play; and Miss Marie Immisch proved herself fully equal to her very exhausting and difficult part. Her rendering was throughout a highly emotional, rather than a finished intellectual one, and she was at her best in depicting the struggle between her mother's love and her desire for revenge; a struggle which ends in the murder of her two children. She expressed well the barbarian nature which is the under lying cause of the unhappiness of her marriage with Jason, but she failed to convey the supernatural element in Medea. Mr. Carl Machold, as her weak husband Jason, gave a very good portrayal of the Greek nature as contrasted with the barbarian Medea, and of the resulting lack of sympathy between the two. He also, with Mr. Adolph Winds as Kreen, brought out the selfishness and greed which are emphasized by Grillparzer as the underlying cause of the tragedy.