... Praise for socialist play CHICHESTER FESTIVAL Theatre director Patrick Garland has been prais ed for bringing a socialist play dealing with the political hot potatoes of economic crisis and unemployment to his bastion of middle-class playgoing. The 21st ...

... Socialist arts celebrities attacked By HELEN GOULD TORY peer and Barbican Centre chief, Detta O'Cathain, this week fired back a volley at celebrity Labour arts campaigners. Their party's proposed tax increases for mid dle income earners would backfire ...

... Lonely lament for a socialist dream Gerard Werson on the public and private politics of Harold Nicolson OFFSTAGE DOWNSTAIRS Nicolson Fights Croydon THIS short play is gripping through the detail with which it shows us the patrician and politician Harold ...

... set 40 years ago, of a snobbish South Kensington titled canon, who prevents his daughter's marriage to a young Pcckham Socialist by inviting the suburban family to tea and encouraging them to appear at their worst before her, and then marries her to ...

... and a new socialist world. Alec is unhappy with his foundry job, which affects his chest. But any thoughts that we were following an obvious route to Morris becoming rich and hav ing to make uncomfortable deci sions about becoming a socialist boss, or ...

... as he struggles with his duty to his socialist supporters on the one hand and his duty to his sovereign on the other. Kenneth Gilbert gives us a percep tive King George V, having more em pathy with the socialists than one might expect, yet at the same ...

... Rebel In Paradise YOUNG VIC STUDIO THIS IS an interesting, well-acted piece by the American socialist historian Howard Zinn, telling of the troubled life of Emma Goldman, who enjoyed a brief notoriety at the turn of this century. Emma (Michele Costa) ...

... harangue between its characters, Patrick (Trevor Gordon), a potential black member of his local council, his white conventional socialist wife Catherine (Anna Sawa) and his long lost extremist brother Harlan (Junior Walker). Black politics come to the fore ...

... professor of modern history whose work has suffered a setback with the burning of the university library. Mother is an ardent Socialist, who fusses over food and clothing, then sneaks off at night on her bicycle to blow up the local power station with cordite ...

... and died in the International Brigade in pursuit and defence of socialist idealism. A ghastly conflict stoked by Mussolini and Hitler on the side of Franco, with Stalin backing the socialists and republicans, it is defined in the brutal image of Picasso's ...

... and William Shimell also in the cast. Banking on Proms DISPLAYING siens that he too, like Peter Hall was a disillusioned socialist, Covent Garden's music director, Colin Davis said in a curtain speech last Saturday thanking the Prom sponsors, what a strange ...

... perhaps most of all, by his wallpaper. What he would have liked to be bered for, of course, was as the founder of a socialist Utopia. Sophia Kingshill has written an interesting, if overlong play, about Morris and his circle which included Bernard ...