... the anniversary of the first production in 1971. The meat of the evening still seems to be as long in coming as the Russian revolution itself and no one can surely deny that, however sparklingly Jennifer Penney and Anthony Dowell dance the partn ered ...

... the less reliable perceptions of Mr Box. With the active and enthusiastic support of the audi ence, Rasputin and the Russian revolution were portrayed with chilling accuracy. Francis O'Connor's plain white set played a vital part in the proceedings, enhanced ...

... retrospective on Anna's life and times. And instead of one actress in the great tragic role, they give us five! The Russian Revolution is over. In the once noble Karenina residence, now a museum, proletarian sightseers stream through its lofty pillared ...

... on. Fortunately, the second act has more interest in that it attempts to relate events before, during and after the Russian Revolution, taking a fair proportion of the audience with it to act the roles of soldiers, pacifists and terrorists. The proceedings ...

... political 'isms' are busted flushes. And George Orwell has been posthumously dubbed a closet Squealer. But his fable of the Russian Revolution and its corruption by Stalin lives on, third in last year's poll of Britain's 100 favourite books, a reflection of ...

... us feel the enormity of her predicament at being born the Grand Duchess Anastasia and then losing everything in the Russian revolution. It is also Chadwick and Collier whom we remember in Concerto, Chadwick for her easy precision in the third movement ...

... COTTESLOE Futurists IN RICHARD EYRE'S production of Futurists there is a genuine feeling of intellectual ferment. The Russian Revolution is four years old but the revolution of minds is only just beginning. Freed from the shackles of Tsarist art, the i ...

... proces sion thereby preserving the ballet's scenario more accurately. The Russians themselves abandoned Act IV after the Russian Revolution when the manpower and machinery, needed to motivate the spectacular destruction of the Rajah's palace, could not be ...

... with one abiding early memory, of marching from Sebastopol to Rostov and back during the British attempt to curb the Russian revolution at the end of the First World War. It is a period which has sustained him through the years of toil in the mine, a legend ...

... conduct threatened by Philistine bourgeois forces on the one hand and the menace posed by the coming upheaval of the first Russian Revolution on the other. The initial optimism of the sisters at the prospect of returning to their beloved Moscow is well recaptured ...

... to that the positively Arctic conditions brought on by the RSC's air-conditioning and I felt I had lived through the Russian Revolution. Red Star begins promisingly enough. Nikolai (Richard Griffiths) is a bit-part player in the Theatre of the Glorious ...