... despair, is strikingly con veyed. Stark tragedy is presented when she- shows a glimpse of the havoc wrought in Ireland by the potato famine. Never once does Miss Reid permit the interest to (lag. but the attention is riveted all the time to the fascination ...

... Holland are police officers who. despite their opinion that sus pects are covering up for each other, drop the case like a hot potato when a colleague telephones that victim's wound could have been self-inflicted. And what was the fate of the foreign maid ...

... one con siders the extent of an R.A.F. type's language, and immediately he is caught up in a positive maelstrom of romance, potato wine, castor oil, organ funds, and smuggling. The twin-brother role is tailor- made for Stanley Lloyd who gives a first-class ...

... the strength of its musical compositions which are lively, tune ful and witty. The introduction of the potato into England is the excuse^ for a potato song, the lyrics of which show the authors at their most inventive. The story concerns Viola, Lady-in-Waiting ...

... of events, a great deal of furniture is overturned and books dismembered, not to mention the destruction of costumes and potatoes. Chris Whittingham plays Van Weyden, the literary critic rescued from drowning by a sealer captain and then plunged into ...

... FESTIVAL Theatre director Patrick Garland has been prais ed for bringing a socialist play dealing with the political hot potatoes of economic crisis and unemployment to his bastion of middle-class playgoing. The 21st annual festival season opens with ...

... because his motive is purely one' of profit, and the enterprise is at risk because there is the threat of a political hot potato, an Inner London Ringway. Is the road a good thing? Yes, because it will ease congestion, no because it will destroy homes ...

... your spuds SPICE OF LIFE Gorta JOHN DUNNE's play Gorta is set at the beginning of the Irish Potato Famine, when rich landlords grabbed all the good potatoes from a blighted harvest, the English were only visible in uniforms and the Irish poor were left ...

... Even the indoor scenes retain a flavour of the earthy surroundings as the stage is thickly covered in soil representing the potato fields. Joint Stock Theatre Group has just returned with Caryl Churchill's Fen from a successful season in New York which ...

... East, where housewives have discovered that peeling off their clothes in workmg men's clubs is more lucrative than peeling potatoes in the kitchen and waiting for their husband's Girocheque to arrive. Wendy, a former Whitley Bay beauty queen, has a young ...

... Australia) and more recently a piece about Shakespeare, Cheapside. Pommies is a comedy with serious undertones, set in 1954 in the potato- peeling department of a Butlins holiday camp in England where Ray (Stephen Wittaker), a rather naive Aussie stu dent, works ...

... Caterina exclaims Isn't that a parachute? The dynamic is elsewhere, with Franco watching Adriano weepin in the mud of his potato field and putting to him his unsettling question, why be unhappy like this be what your are. Adriano is awakened to his true ...