... Action PENTAMETERS CHRISTMAS EVE in the workhouse and Christmas Day in a would-be self- sufTicient commune as depicted by Sam Shepard have a great deal in common. In some ways, it's an ironic sort of ex perience to sit through Action in the middle of ...

... and electricity determined, in spite of a friendly student squatter, to head her in the direction of whatever 1978 calls a workhouse. It's a taut little piece with considerable potential; that was not really realised here. Joanna Doubleday plays Vera with ...

... and his wife (Brian Knight and Sheila Young) look straight out of The Addams family or the Rocky Horror Show, while the workhouse becomes more like a prison with the randy beadle (Bernard Tagliavini) and his beefy floozie (Jane Brittain) both in full ...