... COLISEUM 'HARLEQUINADE' TICKET TOUTS were lying in wait outside the Coliseum on May I for the first appearance together of the Panovs. with £3.20 seats being offered at £10. But as the ex-Soviet dancers' contribution lasted for much less than a quarter ...

... King's Head Table Number 7; Harlequinade Terence Rattigan's strength as a dramatist is proved by the fact that he could write two equally good versions of the same play. Table Number 7, usually seen as the second in his one-act duo Separate Tables, originally ...

... Ballet, with girls from six to 16, at the Cambridge Arts, included the first performance of a new ballet Harlequinade, to the music of HARLEQUINADE Ballet, with choreography by Mari Bicknell. music by Couperin. decor by Joan Jefferson Farjeon, puppets ...

... a pantomime plus and the plus is Danny La Rue, a real live orchestra, singers of class and a touch of the old fashioned harlequinade in an amazing acrobatic team of six tumblers. A truly oreat show. The spectacle is a feast to the eyes. Sumptuous scenery ...

... Third l-'airy Shirley Rtcs Flunkey Robin Hunter Prince Popped i Juno SteMs Dandini Barbara Burke Cabby Robin Hunter THE HARLEQUINADE A Dance of Delight Shirley Rces Chorus- Ruhin Hun'.er Harlequin Deny* Pa'tlKT Dobbin John Terry and Da\id Thom\on Clown ...

... essentially a producer's picce. It is a study in fantasy, as light as thistle down, and having the freshness and gaiety of a harlequinade, which in many ways it resembles, although the enigmatic figure of the musician who pipes so merrily in the gardens adds ...

... and surely catches the re quired duality of interpretation to present a principal boy of charm and gusto. It is in the Harlequinade that the lack of speed and cohesion be comes most apparent, although we must be grateful for a chance to see this pari ...

... details. I thought the Pollocks toy theatre sequence came over most magically and there was a good try at an 18th century Harlequinade. The modern pantomime sequence, complete with roguish principal boy and raucous dame, shows how far we have come from the ...

... has come to the Barbican, where, with a orchestra pit complete with fine band, it settles well. The artful blending of harlequinade, pantomime and operetta is still nicely touched with comedy that might have come from the Hal Roach or the Chaplin studios ...

... towering figure of Harry Pureed, as Sign or Fire-Eater, the puppet Showman. Some good moments coue from a complete set of Harlequinade puppets and there are three speciality dancers. The music a always gay and tuneful, and the period costumes by Chjrles ...

... sets of twins who cause the mass of mix-ups, the Amipholus pair and the Dromios, radiate fun and frolic in an amalgum of harlequinade, vaudeville, Edwardian operetta, and free-for-all, with a touch of Keystone comedy. There may be some loss of words, of ...

... Chichester Festival Theatre early this year, was devised by Jack Tinker, and is impeccably directed by Stella Chapman. Harlequinade leads the way; the extract is one of Rattigan's best comedy passages, about the stage players in rehearsal, with, notably ...