... especially when it invites us to compare him with the celebrated Loch Lomond monster Of the human acting I would prefer not to speak. For my own part, I never found this parti cular beast frightening at all if anything, rather discriminating and ill-used. ...

... Hordern's Caliban can be both affecting and alarming it is never, like so many Calibans, just a shaggy-dog story, j and he speaks Be not afeard as well as I I remember it. These two players, the creatures of air and earth, are the making of the revival ...

... Palladium he waits to be squeezed. Ask him any preposterous question. After a second's premonitory rum ble, the oracle will speak Who won the Popplewell Plate at Kettering in 1853, sir Popplewell Plate Let me see, sir, that would be Dragoman'; Lord William ...

... It looks so easy. All the dialogue is there. Very well, chaps, carry on I But I warn future aspirants not to be deceived. Speaking to them in the infuriating tones of a wise uncle, as one who has known the toil of getting an Alice into the theatre this ...

... timid bank clerk, is to hold up his bank manager and Simon, ne'er-do-well playboy, is to marry the first eligible girl who speaks to him after the reading of the will. Failure to observe theie conditions entails loss of the legacy in each case, and the ...

... Rowe (12). They are confident from the start, and gaily dance around with a note of enthusiasm ringing in every word they speak or sing. Olga Regan, as Fairy Kindheart, provides a surprise for the regu lars. She competently makes her entrances and exits ...

... gestures contrast with the aimless arm-waving of some of the other members of the cast. And these gestures and her expressions speak volumes of disapproval, surprise and a certain resigna tion but even that has its breaking point, which comes inevitably as ...

... the work- Krapp and Warnm^ extra-terrestrial malevolence no less powerful for being dusted with the powder (theatrically speaking) of the creator's own chiselling. The staging is. one presumes deliberately so. extremely simple a matter of black tabs, ...

... the music of the text, though Jason Furnival shaped Demetrius' speeches with considerable eloquence. In general, the verse speaking was rather rough and ready. After a sluggish start, Benjamin Luxon as Bottom was fully transformed in Act III. The braying ...

... and the surly goose-keeper by Neil Boorman When the princess goes to her bridegroom's country, she does so on a horse that speaks, Falada, and this was concocted splendidly to pace around the central acting area and for the fine mask to utter its war nings ...

... man as on a bare stage dressed with only the minimum of props, carol singers become actors play ing a wide variety of roles speaking in turn both Dickens' wonderful narrative as well as their own character's words. Unfortunately in this theatre-in-the- round ...

... weaving the fiction-fact, romance and reality into an enthralling tapestry of personal experience and artistic revela tion. He speaks with sensitivity and dramatic effectiveness, and is able to make his one-man production seem to be peopled by many others ...