... Theatre Company have just launched the first in a series of English-speaking productions at the Jariateatern in Stockholm. In this scene from Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking are NEIL FRANCE and MAGGIE RYDER. The coproducer was Barrie Stacey and ...

... delightful Viennese soprano, gives Sunday's r celebrity concert. On Tuesday The Conductor Speaks, in the person of Karl Rankl, former chief at Covent Garden. Speaking Personally on Monday is the wife of another conductor, Sir Hamilton Harty. Older opera-goers ...

... Shirer. (Robert Hale 12s. 6d.) The proper study The proper study of mankind may still be man all right, but, fictionally speaking, I suggest that it is now not man in conflict with himself (how is Tom managing his schizophrenia or man in relation to his ...

... through a trapdoor centre stage into the darkness beneath. In counterpoint to the bleak set and formal costumes, the cast, speaking in French, seem peculiarly expressive. Pierre-Alain Chapuis as Leontes raves elo quently, rolls on the floor and tweaks the ...

... well, with neither performer managing to convey any feeling on the subject, Aladdin failing to speak all the lines clearly and the miscast Princess who did speak her lines clearly, in a piercing voice delivering every line in the same fiat manner whatever ...

... scarf, his god-turned staff a walking stick. But he is given a sombre, thoughtful characterisation by Bill Wallis. Mr Wallis speaks with a compelling measured emphasis, freshness abounding in his big speeches. I would like to see him in a Brooke production ...

... Birmingham Kepcw} This is a Richard unaffected, for one, by the Montague reading of the conscious artist in sorrow. Jack May speaks with 3 beautiful lucidity, and Douglas Seale shows again that, in this matter of producing the Shakespearean histories, he ...

... systematic murder of the Jews in their thousands and tens of thousands. He and Father Riccardo were urging that the Pope should speak out, that he should condemn Hitler and that the papal attitude should be made plain before the world. It is a matter of history ...

... this one (I speak with as much keenness as if I was charging twopence a borrow) this one is I cast about for words to describe how good it is this one is good. (Now you see why reviewers write as they write. They could hardly write as they speak, could they ...

... Juliet Old Vic There is no need to say to John Neville, Wherefore art thou Romeo He was a natural choice for the part, and speaks it beautifully. Claire Bloom is a reasonable Juliet, Paul Rogers a resolute Mercutio, and Robert Helpmann's production excel ...

... theatre in spite of Michael Denison's production and the performance of Maxine Audley (from Stratford). I am sorry to have to speak of it in the past tense. ...

... them selves can give points to many a film-star in deportment and charm. Secret Conclave (Marble Arch Pavilion). English- speaking version of an Italian film about the life of the bare-footed peasant boy who eventually became Pope Pius X., and died full ...