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Regional Reviews: Speaking For Myself

... Speaking For Myself EDINBURGH MAGGIE Kinloch, new director of the Byre Theatre in St Andrews, has chosen well in combining these two monologues into a thoughtful and amusing double-bill, and in Phil McCall and Alyxis Daly she has two actors who inhabit ...

Published: Thursday 26 April 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 283 | Page: 15 | Tags: review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: RELATIVELY SPEAKING

... RELATIVELY SPEAKING A STAR-STUDDED cast recently filled the Questors Theatre in Ealing for the professional debut of Simon MacCorkindale's new company, Pendant Entertainments Productions, in Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking. The play includes all the ...

Published: Friday 30 December 1977
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 15 | Tags: review 

LATE PANTOMIME REVIEWS: TUNBRIDGE WELLS

... vear-old Avril Ticehurst. playing her first professional part as Red Riding Hood, steals the show whenever she appears. She speaks her lines and stngs her songs with confidence and charm so much so that many of the young audience are relieved when the principal ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1962
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 17 | Tags: review 

More Play Reviews: Mud

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 22 May 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 20 | Tags: review 

Play Reviews: The Winter's Tale

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 21 | Tags: review 

Pantomime Review: Aladdin

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 24 | Tags: review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: The Tempest

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 22 | Tags: review 

TELEVISION TODAY: An unimpressive beginning

... that most people now accept the conven tion of actors speaking proper English when they are playing foreigners, whereas hearing Eng lish actors putting on accents when they are meant to be speaking a foreign language is both instrusive and inconsistent ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 11 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: The toils of war

... (designer Elizabeth Ascroft) with 12 bells suspended from the flies and draped as a background shroud-like linen, the company speaks the verse fluently with an admirable range of tone, bringing the chorus vividly to life. There is lingering incantation i ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 27 | Tags: review 

Play Reviews: Camelot

... moral dilemmas it poses, unbearably moving. His speaking and singing voice is as young and musical as ever. Christine Ebersole, fresh from playing the very different role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, speaks and sings with the purity and refined English accent ...

Published: Thursday 31 July 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 23 | Tags: review 

Regional Reviews: Relative calm

... GERMANY: Spared the controversies of 1980, when the jury were blamed for their timorous selections, the 1981 festival of German-speaking theatre in Berlin passed off in relative calm. Apart from the world premiere of Peter Greiner's Keitz (from Cologne) and ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1981
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 51 | Tags: review 

Television Reviews: The Art Of Excellence

... discovered to his horror that the adjudication was in Welsh, and. as they don't speak Welsh in Cwm, he couldn't understand a single word of it. Fortunately, a Welsh-speaking stage hand could, and Spinetti, naturally hoping to hear he had done well, asked ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 468 | Page: 45 | Tags: review