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... THE GATEWAY FALLING OFF A LOG At the Gateway Theatre Club on January 31 was produced by MoorHall Productions a play by James Drake entitled Falling Off a Log. Mrs. Angelus Molly Looc Alf Strange Richard Mansall John Armstrong Ian Cooper Margaret ...

... THE ARTS MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION On January 25 the Great Newport Theatre Committee, Ltd., presented Bernard Shaw's play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. The formidable Mrs. Warren and her equally formidable daughter i carry on (heir resounding discus sions ...

... THE EMBASSY THE MEDICINE MAN On February 14. by arrangement with Glasgow Unity Theatre Society. Ltd., Envoy Productions. Ltd., under the direction of Anthony Hawtrey, presented James Forsyth's The Medicine Man. George Lurgan Archie Duncan Johnny ...

... I Accepting the essential differences of technique and personality between Mr. Henson and his two pre decessors at I his theatre. Elwood P. Dowd himself remains the kindliest and most likeable of inebriates. But i Mr. Henson. peerless as buffoon, is also ...

... little playhouse is already fulfilling one of the valuable purposes of such theatres that ol introducing new or unknown works. This Italian play is a worthy addi- j tion to the theatre. Its story is I slender enough, yet its treatment plumbs the depths of ...

... At Toynbee Hall on February 11, for the second production of the Festival of Contemporary (1920-1950) Plays, the Wimbledon Theatre Guild presented a revival of St. John Ervine's play. Robert's Wife, produced by Keelan Shaw. An excellent performance came ...

... terisations. Michael Mac Owan has made an excellent job of giving Liverpool playgoers Shakespeare on the linos of the Elizabethan theatre, with an extremely effective open, place- less stage, curtained alcove, upper balcony, and the use of the orcht-Mra pit for ...

... AT NORWICH THE WINTER'S TALE On February 13, at the Madder-market, Norwich, the Madder-market Theatre Trust, Lid., presented the Norwich Players in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Ignoring the author's geographical incongruities and other shortcomings ...

... the French revolu tion, but devoid of any positive alternative system of society. This resulls in a clash, making excellent theatre, dividing the family and roughening (he course of true love, but finishing rather lamely in a thwarted plot, with the idealist ...

... AT STRATFORD MAN OF THE WORLD On February 7, at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Strattord-upon-Avon, was presented, by the Company of Four, a play by C. E. Webber, entitled. Man of the World. Good acting in a difficult play was the characteristic ...

... QUESTORS SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE On February 11 at their Ealing theatre the Questors presented Shadow and Substance, by Paul Vincent Carroll, first produced at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1943. John Howard dominates the play as Canon Skerritt. Sardonic ...