... storms of a Cheshire township provide the theme of this play. The setting is in 1 the shop of a draper who has been declared bankrupt. He is apparently a failure and something of a wastrel, and feeling that the j town is against him, he leaves i home without ...

... sudden? The curtain rises on an exciting set the stage of a deserted theatre. And the introduction of (he chicf character a bankrupt actor- manager who sleeps, drinks and dreams on the scene of his former triumphs-pushers in a promising theme. From his muttered ...

... performed in devastating deadpan style by a bunch of small street urchins. A manager of boxing hopefuls, weary, frustrated, bankrupt and blonde-bewitched, was portrayed in comically rueful fashion by Jack Warden. Mindy Carson was bright and personable in ...

... She returns at last, accompanied by a monstrous retinue of slaves and sycophants to offer the town which is now totally bankrupt a huge sum of money, plus cash for each inhabitant, in exchange for the death of her girlhood lover. The horror of the piece ...

... homosexual. Eddie asserts that he is Ray's best friend but is having an affair with Beryl and serving a court order to make him bankrupt. Bull asserts that he is from the court charged with serving the order. Given such slight material the players havedifficult ...

... unobtrusive Karl Johnson) consigns the piece to spasmodic memories. Each person is dsperately lonely, most of them morally bankrupt but somehow we are so removed from them that we do not care as deeply as we should. It is only in the last few minutes when ...

... distributed and gnomic remarks are made about the nation and the ting. A diverting character is Old O'Malley, who owns a bankrupt paint factory (where bombs may be made), and chundles along in a coi- ourfully eccentric way. He is brilli antly played by ...

... turn, but the cen tral line, after the inheritance, is Evelyn's plotting to make his relations and friends believe he has bankrupted himself by heavy gambling. The antics of those around him, which often in volve Georgina, daughter of the peculiarly sycophantic ...

... that, tracks for pop records, being done up Mil and down dale in an underground studio by Stan, an impresario practically bankrupt but ever eager. He has discovered a wonderful singer, Sandy Beige, when having a drink too many in a club. At the time, Sandy ...

... loose in the closing moments of a Ray Cooncy farce. Even HiHf* straight, the violent orgy serves as a potent comment on the bankrupt moral values of the play's characters, which I suspect is what Middleton intended. Royal Court director Max Stafford Clark ...

... morality: the character is a parody of Shaw himself. The people are flounder ing in the post-Great War malaise, when science is bankrupt and respectability suspect. We've had worse shocks since then. The play is strangely snobbish for a Socialist author, and ...

... Vivien Heilbron as as stuck-up London socialite Lady Caroline Bryamore, and the story in volves shipwrecks, runaway daughters, bankrupt fathers, long-lost brothers, blackguard society rakes, snobbish magistrates, and, naturally, true love triumphant. Kit Surrey's ...