... Rudi saves the show DOMINION Northern Ballet Theatre NORTHERN Ballet Theatre, during the triple bill given at the Dominion Theatre, had cause to be more than a little grateful to Rudolf Nureyev. His powerful presence as Jean the valet in the company's new production of Birgit Cullberg's sadistic Miss Julie galvanised the cast into action, bringing from them an admirably alert response to ...

... A Jovial Crew BARBICAN PIT THE RSC has an honourable tradition of rediscovering lost plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries and immediate successors in its studio theatres for which the Swan was expressly built. This production opened there a year ago and has now transferred to the Barbican Pit, arranged to accommodate its arena staging by Max Stafford-Clark who made his RSC debut with this ...

... The Happy Prince OXFORD RATHER like the tragic case of Dylan Thomas, the majority of Oscar Wilde's output was completed within a comparatively short space of time. Famous and infamous for his witty, satirical plays The Importance Of Being Earnest and Lady Windemere's Fan, Wilde was also capable of ing nis nana to sngnier tnings, sucn as the delightful and beautifully drawn tale ofThe Happy ...

... The Three Sisters GLASGOW TWENTIETH Century artifice and invention are used to create a new perspective for the Wooster Group's version of the Anton Chekhov classic The Three Sisters at the Tramway Theatre, thus part of the modern miracle envisaged by Czarist battery commander Lt Col Alexander Vershinin is seen to come to pass. The concept of having the char acters speak some of their lines ...

... Women Of The Dust Bristol THIS joint production by Asian theatre company Tamasha and the Bristol Old Vic was commissioned by Oxfam to mark the charity's 50th anniversary and looks at the plight of migrant women workers in India. Not a theme, at first encounter, to set the theatrical blood racing. But author Ruth Carter has cleverly focussed on one extended family, grub bing a living on a ...

... New Voices ROYAL COURT UPSTAIRS THE YOUNG Writers' Festival, presented by the Royal Court Young People's Theatre is 20 years old this year. Although the Festival can now be enjoyed outside London as well, seeing showcase tions like the three given unaer tne New Voices title in the Upstairs Theatre at the Royal Court where so many previous writers have gone on from promise to achievement has ...

... Poetry in motion THEATRE ROYAL, STRATFORD EAST Heer Ranjha TARA Arts is probably Britain's leading Asian theatre company with a unique cross-cultural programme aimed at a large and varied audience. Heer Ranjha is the story of a tragic love affair which was first written down, as a poem, by Varis Shah in 1759. Since then it has become an enduring tale in India and Pakistan, three film versions ...

... Lust HORNCHURCH PRIOR to the West End, the Heather Brothers' latest musical extravaganza, Lust, is a bawdy, colourful romp which may well lead its authors onto a commercial success. Freely adapted from Wycherley's Restoration comedy, The Country Wife, it tells of Homer's ability to gain access to women through a self-pro moted rumour of his recent castration. Preventing suspicion and allowing ...

... Wozzeck (Albal Berg) ENO ENO has revived production of Alban interesting 1990 that he and his Berg's Lazaridis have got it's odd that the experience moves in both senses, only Perhaps it's because they have opted for an almost exclusively urban context, even though the early scene with Andres and that of Marie's mur der both take place in the countryside. While Berg ...

... Gaslight HORNCHURCH SEAN O'Connor's production of Gaslight, at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, is a combination of modem ideas and old-fashioned suspense, supposedly staged to recreate the melodrama so successively evoked in the 1943 black and white film of the same title. In this production, extravagant dra matic expressions are cast superficially under a stark spotlight causing it to verge ...

... Carmen Newcastle THE surrealist opening of Northern Stage's production of Carmen sets the tone for the rest of the evening. The setting for Stephen Jeffreys' play is the Spanish Civil War and a haunting atmosphere is created by an authentic set and a musical background created by Spanish guitar, song and the rhythmic use of drums. The tale revolves around the factional fighting towards the ...

... Taking three bites at the Big Apple Lanraine Leigh on an astute study of human frailties NEWBURY Plaza Suite THE GENTLE art of persuasion and how it slides into the somewhat firmer one of bullying; Neil Simon's three self-contained acts which take place in the same Plaza Suite, 719, in New York show the author's astute, comic observation of human relationships and how personal need can ruin ...