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...Mob Once Refused to Appear...
...Sometimes the mob proves unruly, but on the whole they have been comparatively well behaved. Once, in our production in the Covent Garden Opera House, the mob struck before the performance,--I forget now just what the difficulty was,--but at all events it was all fixed up at the time. I expect no such difficulty, however, in Boston...
...doubt if there was so large a mob in the play 2000 years ago as in the modern version. When 'Oedipus Rex' was given in the Dionysian Theatre at Athens, where the play was originally produced the performances were given in a huge ampitheatre before an audience of some 19,000. In so large an ampitheatre, before so large an audience, the play was necessarily produced on a large scale. Yet even so I doubt if they had a mob as large as ours was this evening. This idea of a thundering mob and howling hundreds is pretty much...
Then, after an unfortunate question in which the mob was referred to as the chorus, Sir John declared quite vehemently...
...Whatever may be the case in a modern musical comedy, in a Greek play, the chorus and the mob are entirely separate. The chorus is a thing apart. It is composed of 15 actors with a leader in the center and seven members on either side. The members of the chorus are about the most highly trained actors in the entire cast, and they fulfill an important part in the dialogue and in the movement of the play...