... The Females TABARD AUTHOR Henry Jachimowski's introduction to his play explains that his Females are Revolutionaries, emerging from slavery some terrified, unsure, flattened on all fours, like bitches. Others burning with energy, bravely marching in the face of reality--and that would seem to be the nub of the matter. His women are unnamed, but the pro gramme contains clues to help ...

... Romeo And Juliet BRISTOL NEW Bristol Old Vic artistic director Andrew Hay has quite literally involved his audience right from the beginning in his helter-skelter first Theatre Royal production. For in consort with designer Mick Bearwish, a former colleague at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton, he has sited bench seats for 30 or 40 spectators bang in the middle of the frantic action on stage. The ...

... The Three Sisters GLASGOW TWENTIETH Century artifice and invention are used to create a new perspective for the Wooster Group's version of the Anton Chekhov classic The Three Sisters at the Tramway Theatre, thus part of the modern miracle envisaged by Czarist battery commander Lt Col Alexander Vershinin is seen to come to pass. The concept of having the char acters speak some of their lines ...

... Women Of The Dust Bristol THIS joint production by Asian theatre company Tamasha and the Bristol Old Vic was commissioned by Oxfam to mark the charity's 50th anniversary and looks at the plight of migrant women workers in India. Not a theme, at first encounter, to set the theatrical blood racing. But author Ruth Carter has cleverly focussed on one extended family, grub bing a living on a ...

... New Voices ROYAL COURT UPSTAIRS THE YOUNG Writers' Festival, presented by the Royal Court Young People's Theatre is 20 years old this year. Although the Festival can now be enjoyed outside London as well, seeing showcase tions like the three given unaer tne New Voices title in the Upstairs Theatre at the Royal Court where so many previous writers have gone on from promise to achievement has ...

... Poetry in motion THEATRE ROYAL, STRATFORD EAST Heer Ranjha TARA Arts is probably Britain's leading Asian theatre company with a unique cross-cultural programme aimed at a large and varied audience. Heer Ranjha is the story of a tragic love affair which was first written down, as a poem, by Varis Shah in 1759. Since then it has become an enduring tale in India and Pakistan, three film versions ...

... Lust HORNCHURCH PRIOR to the West End, the Heather Brothers' latest musical extravaganza, Lust, is a bawdy, colourful romp which may well lead its authors onto a commercial success. Freely adapted from Wycherley's Restoration comedy, The Country Wife, it tells of Homer's ability to gain access to women through a self-pro moted rumour of his recent castration. Preventing suspicion and allowing ...

... Wozzeck (Albal Berg) ENO ENO has revived production of Alban interesting 1990 that he and his Berg's Lazaridis have got it's odd that the experience moves in both senses, only Perhaps it's because they have opted for an almost exclusively urban context, even though the early scene with Andres and that of Marie's mur der both take place in the countryside. While Berg ...

... Gaslight HORNCHURCH SEAN O'Connor's production of Gaslight, at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, is a combination of modem ideas and old-fashioned suspense, supposedly staged to recreate the melodrama so successively evoked in the 1943 black and white film of the same title. In this production, extravagant dra matic expressions are cast superficially under a stark spotlight causing it to verge ...

... Carmen Newcastle THE surrealist opening of Northern Stage's production of Carmen sets the tone for the rest of the evening. The setting for Stephen Jeffreys' play is the Spanish Civil War and a haunting atmosphere is created by an authentic set and a musical background created by Spanish guitar, song and the rhythmic use of drums. The tale revolves around the factional fighting towards the ...

... The Foursome BARONS COURT IN reviving Ted Whitehead's seventies play The Wire Theatre Company remind us of that French idiom 'le plus de change, le plus de le même chose'. Twenty years on the war between the sexes is still on, the blood is still being spilt on the same tleground. We've just got used to it, that's all. Which is why, particularly, this play is less shocking than when it was ...

... It's bizzy by design PRINCE EDWARD Some Like It Hot WITH Some Like It Hot, we are not so much into the realm of the musical as show business, two off-colour words for those who believe every experience should be meaningful. This show is decidedly not meaningful, the book is an adequate stage adaptation of a classic comedy film, the music, by Jule Styne, is at an altogether more humdrum ...