... quickly telling dialogue, and a good sense of theatre. Hugh is a young mental case, possibly a psychopath, who when a child killed his father. The act haunts him, but so do sexual feelings which appear to be totally unresolved and a casual then anxious ...

... Then the mood deepens as Jimmy encounters his long estranged wife (Jo Mclnnes), for the first time since their young child was killed, and the couple begin a cathartic process that could easily have become mawk ish. But thanks to a combination of fine ...

... familiar story of the young couple (in a mid- western city in America) whose marriage goes on the rocks after their child has been killed in a motoring accident. We have the usual morbid introspection, but instead of any analysis of character or society ...

... To Kill a Mockingbird EDINBURGH A CHILD'S eye view of bigotry in the Southern USA, read by millions and, dramatically, haunted by the ghost of Gregory Peck, was always going to be difficult to stage. The Lyceum production has many good points but does ...

... The Killing of Sister George Glasgow Kenny Miller has directed and designed a rib-cracking version of Frank Marcus' play at the Citizens', aided by idiosyncratic performances from four out standing actors Anne Myatt. Patti Clare, Ellen Sheean and Anne ...

... priest and witch doctor. By having her child treated by the white doctor rather than by Shepherd's sorcery, Delia has questioned his powers and weakened nis authority and made him a dangerous enemy. He wants the child to die to prove his power, and when ...

... of her mother's exis tence believing her to have been killed in a car crash. And so Roswitha's arrival breaks the false contentment of the Steinmann family, of which she is the only cherished child. The piece falls into two sections Roswitha, played with ...

... Carabosse becomes Lady Verena, a widow who lost her child when her Norman husband was killed in a duel with a Saxon. In spite, she abducts the Saxon's child, Ralph, and predicts that his second child will prick her finger and die at 15. The Lilac Fairy's ...

... THE LINDSEY MURDERER'S CHILD On March 20 was produced here a new play by Edward Rutherfoord. entitled Murderer's Child. Agnes France* More Mrv Blanc Olive Walter Penelope Ellis Ruth Dunning Sally Deirdre Doone Stephen Ray Jackson John Richard Blalchley ...

... the prologue taking place 20 years before the main action, when a mixed-race child is bom to the wife of the plantation owner and taken away to be raised elsewhere. The child, now a young man with revolutionary ideals, returns to the plantation, not ...

... of 20-year-old Hannah (Victoria Hamilton), Debbie's old school chum and a child of his once closest friends, in a dishev elled state of exhaustion. After her parents were killed in a plane crash in Karachi, Hannah and her unstable brother 'lit out' with ...

... meant to him. He wants to take her back, but when he hears she is expecting the blind man's child, he agrees to a divorce. Then the lover gets conveniently killed in a street accident, and that seems to leave the road clear for a reconciliation. But Linda ...