| Title: | The Slow Man |
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| Description: | The Slow Man by Mark Lemon. Ned Crosswell (alias the Brentford Pet) was played by Sanders. |
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| 1st Performance: | Nov 16, 1854 |
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| Theatre: | Adelphi |
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| Source: | The Illustrated London News, Dec 2, 1854, p. 561 |
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| Review: | The Illustrated London News, Dec 2, 1854, p. 561 |
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ADELPHI THEATRE.
THE SLOW MAN.
We give an illustration of the extraordinary scene in Mr. Mark Lemon's farce of "The
Slow Man," in which the epic poet, who is the hero of the piece, is intruded upon by
Hector Rackett and his friends of the fancy, with the pet-boxer, much to his personal disquiet,
and altogether to the ruin of the great work which he had projected. The headlong revelry
of the situation is novel in stage incident
and, had it been sufficiently prepared for, would have created for the drama in which it was
introduced a permanent reputation. As it is, it serves for a variety in stage-business, and
presents an unusual group of characters. The suggestion might be profitably adopted, and
carried out in a higher class of piece, as a melodramatic accessory, to lighten the burthen
of more important business.
Writers of drama have too great a tendency to run into routine; and thus it happens that one
production resembles another too closely. Combinations, like the present, drawn from real
life, not only present novelty, but give vitality to situation. Mr. Lemon is, therefore, to
be commended for the boldness which he has shown in the invention of the incident.
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