... UNDERGROUND, the performing alias of this year's MA Drama Group at Essex University, staged the premiere in the English- speaking world of Ulrich Plenzdorf s The New Sorrows Of Young W, translated by Christopher Silver. The title refers to Goethe's ...

... but this, too, disappears without trace. Lynn Farleigh, clad in gold from skuil-cap to ballet -shoes, looks mar vellous and speaks with admirable clarity, while Ian Charleson and Julia McCarthy support her as doc tor and gentlewoman. Director is Jack Emery ...

... as villainess Regina and Paul O'Connor as the unscrupulous brother Oscar had greater success than anyone when it came to speaking low and exagger atedly. When they raised the pitch, however, success eluded them and an impression of affectation took over ...

... passages from his own poetry and plays. Philip Banyard, with the look of a youthful James M Mason, does the only eloquent speaking using his voice well in size and attack and in quieter passages too. The performance is interesting but it rarely has a standard ...

... Laidlaw and Deborah Watling pro vide strong clear-cut characters in their supporting roles and Paula Patterson in her non-speaking role of image-fantasy provides an unself- conscious visual treat. Design was by Ninotchka Kipling and liHhrinK bv Bosco. ...

... Ring Out the Bells (Victoria Palace) LAUGHTER came less readily at the Victoria Palace. I speak for myself. Around me the theatre swayed. Strong men melted in their seats. Women sobbed hysterically. But I observed only the presence of Bud Flanagan, Nervo ...

... wait for corro boration. But I am never any good at anagrams Mrs. Christie has me well beaten here. I must be cautious in speaking of the cast. You will find no clues in the careful statement that Jeanne de Gasalis (fluttering her way through the night) ...

... Pratt and Fisher Morgan come through best. Mr. Pratt is a mercurial, twinkling grandee (though, by the way, need the Duke speak of Wezley and Wezleyan and Mr. Morgan's Grand Inquisitor has the blandness of cream-cheese he would be the life-and-soul of ...

... performance sat Mr. Wolfit, and I noticed that he followed Sir John's performance with particular care. Now, statistically speaking, he has gone one better than his great predecessor, for, in addi tion to Oedipus Tyrannus, he is playing Oedipus At Colonus ...

... only child of adoring parents. Mandy is such a bright baby in all other ways that they can't understand why she is so slow to speak. The anxious mother, watching her closely, finds that she doesn't respond to normal sounds and voices-- calling, clapping-- ...

... Purdom looks extremely well in the uniform of a university cadet corps. His demeanour is that of a man of breeding and his speaking voice attractive. Unfor tunately, his singing voice is not his own, but the rich tenor of Philadelphia's Mario Lanza. The ...

... some comic tableaux (that took me back, as they say) of the defeat of the Armada. Are we lucky Well here it 's for you to speak. ...