... COVENT GARDEN RIGOLETTO AND PARSIFAL On June 13 the Covcnl Garden Opera staged the last performance this season of Verdi's Rigoletto. Stephen Williams writes The oftener one hears Rigoletto the more convinced one is that it is among the half-dozen most effective operas in the world. Nothing goes on too long. There are no tedious stretchcs, there is hardly a note wasted, and everv melody ...

... THE CAMBRIDGE ROSARIO AND ANTONIO On June 14 Peter Daubeny for and on behalf of Continental Opera and Ballet Entertainments, Limited, by arrangement with Fernand Lumbroso, presented for the first time in London the Spanish dancers, Rosario and Antonio. Though still only in their twenties, these fabulous cousins have bec,n famous for years on the Continent and in both the Americas, apart from ...

... TWENTIETH CENTURY MANFRED On June 15, the Actors' Group from the Rudolf Steiner School presented the dramatic poem by Lord Byron entitled Manfred. Byron was aged 28 when he wrote Manfred, and it is obvious that reflected in it arc :hc deep feelings engendered by the conflict of his own turbulent soul and the loneli ness and melancholy caused by his exile. It is the cry of despair of a ...

... THE IRVING CABARET CARIBBEAN On November 3 there was presented here a West Indian Party arranged by Edric Connor and entitled Cabaret Caribbean. This brief entertainment is an ex perience that should not be missed. Not everyone, it is true, will fall vic tim to the uninhibited happiness that illumines the whole affair, not everyone will respond to the dis turbing rhythms of the Afro-Cubano ...

... Surgeon's Dilemma 'Hospital Case' at the New Lindsey ONE would hazard a guess that Samuel Perrin, author of Hospital Case, at the New Lindsey, is in some wav associated with the world of medicine and that Plav t>y Samuel Perrin. presented by John Gibson at the New Lindsev Theatre on July 27. Settings bv Anthony Purvis. Sister Mary Spender. .Maureen Prvof Mick Dooley Jack MacGowran Paul ...

... 'LIGHT FANTASTIC' Revue at the King's, Hammersmith THERE is an abundance of gay entertainment in this cleverly devised revue, which is presented by a gifted young company. We could do with more straight comedy and a sketch or two; there are too many songs, often given one after the other without much change of sphere and some items have a tinge reminiscent of other tcvue flems. Still, ...

... THE WINTER GARDEN WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION On October 28, Peter Saunders presented a new play by Agatha Christie. Greta Rosalie West water Carter Waller Horsbrugh Mr. Mayhcw Milton Rosmer Leonard Vole Derek Blomficld Sir Wilfrid Robarts, QC David Home Inspector Hearne David Raven Pta in Clothes Detective Kenn Kennedy Romaine Patricia Jessel Clerk of the Court Philip Holies Mr Justice ...

... SUBURBAN SNOBBERY 'Lucky Strike' at the Apollo BAITING trades union representatives has become such a popular pastime among music hall comedians and newspaper cartoonists that it was bound to transfer to the West End stage, where it has now found a workmanlike exponent in Michael Brett. His Lucky Strike leaves LUCKY STRIKE Comedy by Michael Brett. Pre sented b> Donald Albery, for Don- mar ...

... MASCHWITZ PLAY WITH SONGS 'Romance in Candlelight' at the Piccadilly THE time, says the programme, is some years ago. True enough. It was in fact as far back as September. 1928, that Londoners first saw at the Prince of Wales's Theatre By Candle Light, an adaptation by Harry Graham from a German play that provided also tnc nasis ot trie Maschwitsr s book lor Romance in Candlelight. But ...

... NOT MUCH FUN IN MAY WEEK THERE is very little to rccommend John Morley's May Fever. a musical play of college life, during which we see items from a revue to be presented by undergraduates at Cambridge University during May Week. Mr. Morley's music has a few catchy moments and now and again a suspicion of fresh tunefulness, but generally it is quite uninspired. The story of the show, with ...

... DOROTHY TUTIN'S HEDVIG Notable 'Wild Duck' at the Saville IN concentrating on Hjalmar, Grcgers, and Relling, and working in the family life of the Ekdals and the Werles, directors of Ibsen's realistic study of romantics are apt to assign a place to Hedvig somewhere below that which the character naturally demands. mittedly, Hedvig is allowed to dominate her particular scenes, and, of course ...

... BERLINER ENSEMBLE IN 'MOTHER COURAGE' IF only for one reason, and there are others, the Berliner Ensemble production of Bertok Brechrts Mother Courage and Her Children, at the Palace, should not be missed. In contemporary drama, nothing like it in scope, style and originality has been seen before MOTHER COURAGE AMD HER CHil DKfcN Play by Bertolt Brecht. Music by Paul Demau, d^eor by Teo ...