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ON THE RECORD: TOP CHOICE

... realm of 78- speed discs looks like spreading to the LP lists with eight songs under the J J title of Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean. j Classical -pHERE can be little doubt that, but for his death in an air disaster in 1956, Guido Cantelli would now have ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 734 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

Play Reviews: The Posse--Dog Eat Dog

... on their way to being very big indeed. The Theatre Royal at Stratford East was overflowing with fans. The Posse offer a Caribbean point of view in a Caucasian world. Nothing is sacred and everything is satirised. The bitingly varied acts are acid observations ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 21 | Tags: review 

PANTOMIME REVIEWS: Mr Rabbit Meets Brer Santa

... is set to a soundtrack narrated by RSC actor Rudolf Walker whose gende accent translates the action from Georgia to the Caribbean. His dreamy style, underlined by technical pauses to get the hand carved puppets in position, is bridged by languorous saxophone ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 21 | Tags: review 

Sandy Married

... Hannyside, was of the ilk who renounced cigarettes that their value might benefit widows and orphans of reformed men in the Caribbean Islands he was a Greater Bethelite. Araminta, the niece, was an ascetic High Church member two people with only one link ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: SHEFFIELD

... Nina Baden Semper in the ICA's lunchtime production of The Bully, adapted from Chekhov's The Bear, and re-set in the Caribbean by Trinidadian writer, Horace James. ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 19 | Tags: review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: ICA

... Chekhov's The Bear is a joyous experimental achievement. It marries phrase-for-phrase 'translation' with easy-to-speak Caribbean colloquial dialogue, while not losing any of the comic nuance of the original. l ne comic element ot tnis piece is of a delicate ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 19 | Tags: review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: Independence

... Independence THE BUSH Opened February 13 IN THE CARIBBEAN republic setting of Mustapha Matura's Independence, at the Bush, all is not well. The old Colonial domination has been swept away, and the people freed, but a new domination exists, horrifyingly ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 16 | Tags: review 

THEATRICAL FLOPS: An Unusual Book of Stage History

... tropical beaches in the Caribbean. Mr. Carr, who is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Florida, was for five years a teacher of biology in Honduras. His travels have taken him to nearly every part of the Caribbean. The author is one of ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

JAMAICA OBSERVED

... the rise in the last decade of a West Indian school of writing, fertilised by the B. B. C's wartime overseas programme. Caribbean Voices. The fiction-writers of this school have almost all tound their way to England because of the recognition and audi ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

The Crimson Pirate

... than Douglas Fairbanks. It tells a complicated story about a tyrannical governor and a sketchy resistance, group in some Caribbean island. The beautiful daughter of the local patriot enlists the help A Burt Lancaster, who is a Good Pirate. He is hampered ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

COMMENT

... in four years), will have its premiere at Sadler's Wells. The setting is a ghostly volcanic island which emerges from the Caribbean to disclose a smouldering sexual tangle, played out to voodoo dances and the festivities of Mardi Gras. Conventional arias ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 413 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review 

Regional Reviews: Glory!

... the insistent rhythms of the band calypso, blues and ballads accompany and punctu ate the action throughout. This is the Caribbean, and music and carnival are a part of local politics and life. Glory is the name of the heroine, the exclamation mark in ...

Published: Thursday 08 March 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 452 | Page: 31 | Tags: review