... June 1 1 was presented by the Little Theatre Players, at the Educa tional Settlement, The Dynasts, by Thomas Hardy, produced by Arnold Freeman. Hardy, who shortly before he died gave Arnold Freeman permis sion to produce the play, called it epic drama ...

... adaptation at the Watermill places it fairly locally on the Berkshire/ Hampshire/Wiltshire border. This is the area which Thomas Hardy trademarked as Wessex, and when Stephen Rayne's production opens, with the kind of musical gathering that the novelist ...

... Company, has a strong track record for Thomas Hardy adaptations, and he has come up trumps again with this attractive stage version of one of the best-known of his short stories, On the Western Circuit. All the familiar Hardy ingredi ents of claustrophobic domestic ...

... of it familiar to readers of Robert Gittings' book, Hardy and his Women, has been presented in an imaginary encounter between Hardy and a young country couple, Reuben and his 'intended' Julia. Hardy's fascination with the young woman, whose dark good ...

... of this well loved epic. Now Snap Theatre Company, seen at the Old Town Hall, Havant, sets out to recreate the essential Thomas Hardy. Crowded market-day in Casterbridge and the raucous fair where ambitious Henchard's fate is determined. How do Snap ...

... see a steam-driven threshing machine and half of Stonehenge on stage and some truly magical lighting by Bruno Poet. But Thomas Hardy is not the kind of author from whose works musicals are made. Then again, this is not really a musical, more of an opera ...

... one more in keeping with the tlexi baity ot the age. Her achievement has been consider able and with the entry of this Thomas Hardy masterpiece into the repertoire it underlines how much she will be mis sed. Far from the Madding Crowd is a superb piece ...

... Lotte at Leicester Haymarket Studio, an adaptation of Katharine Mansfield's short stories and a new play on the life of Thomas Hardy. ...

... UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE at THE VAUDEVILLE Peter Hepple reviews Opened December 6 PATRICK GARLAND'S adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree must be regarded as one of the most courageous ventures to reach the West End stage this year. ...

... On July 30 at the Arts, the Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust produced a new opera by Peter Tranchell, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, with a libretto written by Mr. Tranchcll in collaboration with Peter Bentley, entitled The Mayor of Casterbridge. ...

... Arnold. The Odd Women is a challenging work to dramatise. Though he never enjoyed great popularity, Gissing, along with Thomas Hardy, was one of the few men to write about the New Woman. The title refers to what the book and play cite as the half million ...

... evening is (hat the dramatist missed his target His chosen theme might have yielded a good play. It is much the same theme as Thomas Hardy used in The Well-Beloved that a man. having discovered in youth an ideal ,of beauty, should pursue that ideal throughout ...