... A REVIEW OF 1947 By JOHN PARKER With all the good will in the world, I am afraid it must be conceded that 1947 was a disappointing year in the thea-tre. There has been a greatly increased number of new plays, but the quality of most of these has been very mediocre; the really worth-while plays could be almost counted on two hand*. In a review of the theatrical >e*r for 1946 I called ...

... CARMEN AMAYA ON DANCING FROM THE HEART Never has London seen Spanish dancing in such exotic exuberance as at Princes, where the dynamic personality of Carmen Amaya and her troupe of gipsy dancers from Granada charge the fandango and the farruca with new vitality. They transform the stage mxo a gipsy encampment. The audience might be honoured guests at a gipsy fiesta in the heart of ...