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PLAY REVIEWS: Old Storytime

... opera wh ich seems to owe as much to Dallas as it does to the ancient Greeks and survey of sharp business practice in the Caribbean. With so much crammed into a little over two hours, it is no surprise that the dramatist sometimes crashes his emo tional ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Good Rockin' by the Wall

... then the play deteriorates into a kind of sexual panto mime, with a splash of puerile sen timentality between Gerry and the Caribbean Shodana. Workers' State and the state of the world recede into the background. Nor is the play helped by an unconvincing ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Peter Pan and Emily

... back to the same shore, Benjamin Bennett's Brian proves that small can be beautiful and Bruce Cole's musicians provide a Caribbean accompianiment to Fairvland. Roy Robert Smith ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

DANCE: Fresh young things

... by pounding veins of energy released into eminently singable tunes by Alan Lisk. Then followed a non stop variety of Afro-Caribbean, Hebridean and contemporary dance, until Angie Robinson applied just the kind of zany, funky, dance to her piece a.m. that ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Raising The Wreck

... glorify her name whilst she herself was trapped as a pirate queen. Other odd gems emerge within this play, somewhere in the Caribbean, where Frumin has collected these repre sentatives of female independence. Because the historical characters are based on ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Black Jacobins

... Jacobins, written 50 years ago, states The play has been successful with audiences in Europe, Africa, America and in the Caribbean. But nowhere has it swept the audience off its feet. With all respect to the distinguished Marxist historian and cricket ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 6 | Tags: theatre review 

Dance: Cuban National Folk Ballet

... just a colourful spectacle with dancers initating the gentility of Euro pean court dances, spicing them occa sionally with Caribbean rhythms. For mal styles with their attentant manners felt surprisingly tame for the raw energy that was so obviously waiting ...

Published: Thursday 24 April 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre News: 'Ethnic arts need more cash'

... next two years it would work towards channell ing 4 per cent of its annual expenditure towards the development of Afro- Caribbean and Asian arts. Letters were sent to regional arts associations, and to all the council's revenue clients inform ing them ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 442 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: NEW YORK

... girl's rebellion against her permissive, Lesbian mother, and Carolyn Jones' Coup d'E- tat, an even less convincing study of a Caribbean revolution with some good jokes about American and Soviet 'advisers'. This year's Festival also included three staged readings ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: No half pint measures here

... No half pint measures here Roy Robert Smith on the hot reggae rhythms of a Caribbean pantomime HALF MOON Flash Trash WHAT A WELCOME change this Caribbean pantomime offers us on a wet wintry night. The rhythm of reggae, the glow of the Jamaican night ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Definitely The Bahamas

... an quote, puts youthful human nature to the test and finds it wanting. An elderly woman (Heather Canning) stranded in a Caribbean holiday resort with a sick husband, seeks help from newlyweds Max and Polly, only to be roundly rebuffed when they realise ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Moon Dance Night

... Moon Dance Night ARTS EDGAR WHITE's play, set in the Caribbean, bubbles, amuses and seduces with its warmth and humour and is given smart direction by Yvonne Brewster--a direction, however, which allows the play to breathe. Main characters are the formidable ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review