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VGW(HU.772.045
2 Apr 1772:32 (1079)
Mr. Kelly's new comedy of A Word to the Wise was performed
at our theatre last Thursday, for the first time, and
repeated on Tuesday to a very crowded and splendid audience.
It was received both nights with the warmest marks of
approbation; the sentiments with which this excellent piece
is replete were greatly, and deservedly applauded; and the
audience, while they did justice to the merit of the author,
did no less honour to their own refined taste. If the
comick writers would pursue Mr. Kelly's plan, and present us
only with moral plays, the stage would become (what it ought
to be) a school of politeness and virtue. Truth, indeed,
obliges us to confess, that, for several years past, most of
the new plays that have come under our observation have had
a moral tendency, but there is not enough of them to supply
the theatre with a variety of exhibitions sufficient to
engage the attention of the publick; and the most desirable
entertainments, by too frequent a repetition, become
insipid.
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