... the exacting task of producing soch a play as this: his handling of the telephone scene in which one of the twins is seen speaking to his brother, shadowed on the glass door of a kiosk, is particularly impres sive. Mr. Hume designed the rich Palazzo di ...

... that includes not only Ilkla Moor and My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl, but also She's a Lassie from Lancashire. The com pany speaks with what could be described as a serviceable, if not very specific, North Country accent. though, of course, Mr. Pickles ...

... Gillian Fry plays half a dozen parts, and Dionysius MacDuffy, on stage most of the time as an Ant, packs his trunk, so to speak, and appears as an Elephant Kenneth Midwood, as a pathetic Raven, yearns for the wings of a dove before passing to his more ...

... the antics of the Crazy Gang is hardly the ideal environment for a bold play about unmarried mothers. But since, broadly speaking, almost anything in the theatre is permissible so lonig as it is successful, one accepts it with a certain sad resigna ...

... often as not assaulting someone or threatening someone with assault. She knocks her lover about so vigorously only because he speaks with some lack of enthu siasm of her father that he is still a cripple five months later. It is almost a one-woman play, and ...

... have recently returned from Tel AvhP, where they were engaged in pro ducing English plays at two of the capital's Hebrew-speaking theatres. Norman Marshall, who has been 1 producing Ben Jonson's Volpone. I in Tel Aviv? outlined the state of the theatre ...

... this year are the Sutton Amateur Dramatic Club, who presented the second act of The Heiress, by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Speaking on behalf of the adjudi cators, Catherine Lacey, Michael MacOwan, and J. W. Lambert. Mr. MacOwan remarked that tbe com pany ...

... touch of pathos and sincerity throughout, is a most intelligent contribution to the pro duction. David Powell both acts and speaks lachimo extremely well, and in a presentation notable for its good elocution it is impossible to miss the beauty and richness ...

... stalls under the dress circle, and k would be well if Peter GlenviHe, the remarkably accomplished director, could get her to speak rather more loudly. Indeed, this large theatre is not especially well suited to a play in which many effects have to be made ...

... power of flowing round the issues without forthrightly expressing them. But that is ihe drawback of a theatre which can-' nol speak out for fear of the label of propaganda. A further impos sibility lo-day is that incipient revolutions are not likely to escape ...

... of proportion. But even with such mental checks applied, this Hippolytus leaves the impres sion of outstanding merit. The speaking is universally beautiful, the rise and fall of the words, the tension in the silence of the pauses gain full value from Gilbert ...

... studies are well known here. Peter Rowe and David Pruen are the King's two sons the latter, especially, has a tine voice and speaks his verse well. Colin Stevenson. Margaret Stideford. Mal colm Barlow, Jean Martin. Sidney Angrove, Susan Barlow, Gwladys Main ...