... 1WH. Bernard Shaw s domestic play, set in the sombre study of Morell, is the unlikely tale of how this upright Christian Socialist is faced with a threat to his happy marriage in the form of an 18-j^ar-old curly-haired adonis, the poetv Eugene Marchbanks ...

... in a setting by Erik Desmazifcres which combines scaffolding with symbolic masonry reminiscent ot the nastier examples of socialist realism from Stalinist Russia. It is for the most part dimly lit and so very acro batic that the alexandrines take second ...

... themselves with the audience before the show, during the interval and in discussion afterwards. It is a pity that the company's socialist principles apparently do not permit the naming of author, direc tor or cast, but all concerned deserve congratulation on ...

... Rony Robinson and the company. It is a sort of modern political morality, as verbose as an editorial from Pruvdu or the Socialist Worker and about as good- humoured. Ponderously plodding in too drawn-out scenes which should (and could) make their points ...

... man, a gamb ler and liberal landlord. The pioneer socialist William Thompson was played by Don Foley who conveyed the committed thinker Mark Dowse was very effective as the dedicated Manchester socialist who is manager of the co-operative and so too was ...

... unmemorably. What was at fault was the play. McGrath has written a whole string of plays that combine social refor mism and socialist philosophy with a searching concern for the individual human response to the demands of particular societies. Big Square ...

... Dick Whittington DONCASTER WHAT saves Rony Robinson's socialist pantomime Dick Whit- tington from being as big a turn-off as it sounds is a willingness to keep the pantomime tradition intact and a strong line in self-mockery about the socialism. That ...

... evocative and extremely relevant, but the show does give the impression that pre-war entertain ment consisted largely of socialist cabaret interspersed with outbursts of sophistication as represented by Coward and Cole Porter. A Quick Deco also trails ...

... sticks in her th roat. She attacks Thatcherite Britain, angrily though in the terms of any alienated white working class socialist rather than the language of black revolt, and she loses her share in the house. From then on, with a handful of actors, Keeffe ...

... Beneath the Skin was first produced. Here, we said, was something quite new and fresh in thought, intention and mood, a socialist worn wun saurc, a iw* ai bhncui Europe and England, and a warning about Hitler, ranting away in Germany. Now, the work ...

... the outspoken shy voung poet. The placid and observant Candida was played demurely by Primi Town- send and the Christian socialist Morel), in the garb of a parson, was neatly timed by Jonathan Newth. Roger Hume received laughs for his dry humour as Burgess ...

... prepared to do just about anything to get the main Tory party advertising account, and Norman Rodway, the down-on-his-luck socialist film-maker Stuart Clark, provide two very strong central characters. I liked, too, Robin Soans as the smarmy one-time Labour ...