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Play Reviews: When We Are Married at the Lyttelton

... When We Are Married at the Lyttelton R. B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS ONE MAY WANT very mucn 10 see a good National Theatre production of a J. B. Priestley Time play, one of his more serious domestic plays, or the fascinating Dangerous Corner, but we do have ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Action Replay

... They are laid sequentially by Saul, a Jewish architectural student who marries (to the horror of both their familes) Helen. His brother, a lecherous and fashionable artist, marries Shirley. The key to what happens then is in two phrases from the first ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

Cockney musical goes down well in Billingham

... alcohol ic bonhomie of Sir John (C. Lethbridge Baker) who wanted to see Bill and Sally happily married. Felicity Harrison as Jacquel ine, who was determined to marry Bill at any price, tried hard to do this but failed. Hers was a sparkling performance coupling ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1973
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

Bedroom Farce

... relationships, yet the hum our arises from the oddities of those same relations. In the three-bedroom setting, there are four married couples on display, none of them with complete awareness of their partners' needs and each person going along in his or her ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Aristocrats

... to Irish society in the 1970's. .Daughter Alice is an alcoholic married to the housekeeper's grand son. Her sister Claire suffers from recurrent nervous breakdowns, and is about to marry a village green grocer twenty years her senior. Judith, who cares ...

Published: Thursday 29 March 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

Plays in Performance: 'VERY GOOD EDDIE' AT THE PICCADILLY

... and taste. Very Good Eddie is about wife-swapping. Aboard the State of New York, a Hudson River Dayliner, are two newly married couples, ill-matched in height, and a bevy of pretty young opera students who are being chaperoned by their red-haired tutor ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1976
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

Fennimore and Gerda

... vignettes, orchestrally linked, which tell part of the story of a young writer Neils (Christopher Booth -Jones), the girl who marries another man, regrets it and becomes his lover (Rosalind Plowright) and the younger girl with whom he hopes eventually to find ...

Published: Thursday 05 April 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: David and Jonathan and the Time Inbetween

... seeks to marry the mime techniques of Jacques Lecocq with our own until recently more verbally orientated theatre traditions. David and Jonathan and tne lime lnDetween which Upstream invited as a guest produc tion to its Waterloo theatre, marries the theatre ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: 'WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS' AT THE ICA

... main subject of the author's examination. She is a lecturer, comes from a family with long-established colonial ties, and is married to Peter, a Scottish artist who is over- dependent on her. From acid, she has progressed to heroin jabs and is now in the ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 21 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: MANCHESTER Sisters

... in the world. Carol the younger, also imaginative, has come to terms with the ordinary and the everyday to the extent of marrying a man who is essentially a layabout, but loves him enough to think in terms of changing his life. Adrienne has lived with ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

OPERA: BSO admin

... mouth Symphony and Sinfon- ietta orchestras. He is Keith Whitmore and takes up his appointment at the end of June. He is married with children and has been chairman of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 1962. He was also a member of the orchestra's ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1975
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

OPERA: Die Schweigsame Frau

... lonely old man is persuaded by a friend to get married, is offered a demure creature who, after the wedding becomes a virago. Then the old man's nephew i$ always on hand to offer a solution he is married to the girl so offers to take her off the old man's ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 1977
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review