... ONE BRIGHT DAY is a problem play. For its dramatic effect it relies on the problems facing a group of people concerncd with the running of a drug factory, and it sets the audience a pretty problem ONE BRIGHT DAY 1 Pla> by Sigmund Miller. Pre sented by Peier Saunders at the Pavilion. Bournemouth, on Febru ary 13. Decor b> Michael Weight Julian PrejtCOtl Clive Brook Frederick Newberry ...

... A NEW play by Leo Lehman has been chosen to ring down the final curtain at the Q, after which it ceases to be a professional theatre. It is an entertaining play of WHO CARES? Play by Leo Lehman Presented at the Q on February 14. Decor bs Elizabeth Agombar. Harry Stephen Murray J.G Peter Howell Felicia Mary Laura Wood Stefan Vivian Matalon Bubbles Jill Raymond Directed by Peter Zadek. ...

... Margaret Cowan's ALMOST inextricably mixed together are our producers of feature and TV films today. Take this quote from F. N. G. Leevers, President of the British Kinemetograph Society: It is not every exhibiting or producing company which has suc ceeded in extending its operations into the new medium of television, but I am certain that without the successful launching of ITA the effect ...

... RICHARD GILL'S Travellers, presented by the Repertory Players on Sunday last, has for characters the circus and fairground folk with whom the author, now an actor, once worked. In consequence, the characters and dialogue have an air of authenticity which makes the unsua' and to some extent unfashionable theme dramatically exciting throughout the first act and even succeeds in holding the ...

... FOR as long as one cares to remember the work, of Gilbert and Sullivan has. apart from the D'Oyly Carte, been presented by amateur companies with hearty gusto and moderate finesse. There can be few who Have not joined in the fun on one side or the other of the foot lights, cherishing memories of harmonious music and worthy witticisms of an individual style which has no equal. One therefore ...

... MICHAEL CROFT's Youth Theatre production of Julius Caesar which began a short season it the Oueen's on August II. opens on a note of brilliant unconventionality with teenage Romans living in the streets to the strains of traditional jazz. And with thi^ Mr. Croft transforms v into a tale which b Tiding relevance to MoUcm-UiV ?.ire has often been i pon-- and more times tli. -vith gootl ...

... CRANKO'S COMIC BLOOD- AND-THUNDER BALLET by Eric Johns THE LONDON PREMIERE of John Cranko's music-hall burlesque of Sweeney Todd was given by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden on Tuesday evening last. With tongue in cheek Mr. Cranko has re-told the tale of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, using a highly eloguent dance vocabulary. Most ingeniously he has chosen movements which are the ...

... THE Brighton and Hove Repertory Company were in top form for the opening Ust week of The Gaye Affair, a comedy by J. Barry Roach which concerns a novelist, Gaye by name and nature, particularly where the ladies arc concerned. His generous use of sex and medium has put him in the best-seller class and his publisher as clamouring for the completion of his next novel. He choses a luxury hotel ...

... 'The House of The Dead' LAST Friday evening saw the fifth and last production in the Prague Opera Season at the King's, Edinburgh, the British premifcre of Janacek's The House of the Dead. Written in 1928 to his own libretto adapted from Dostoevsky's Journal from the House of the Dead the work is a powerful evocation of the liv ing death of a prison camp in Siberia. Almost without plot, the ...

... Heartbreak House DUBLIN JOE VANEK'S pale, scanty set gives a sepulchral tone to this Gate production of Heartbreak House, and Patrick Mason's direction confirms the theme of mourning. The pace is as slow as a funeral march, and the Shavian humour is frequently overshadowed by a sense of doom. Individual performances are plausi ble. Ingrid Craigie is very fine as Ellie Dunn, and Alan ...

... Talk about it WATFORD The Picture Of Dorian Gray THERE is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about-says Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Palace production of the play deserves and will be talked about. For an evening of satisfying theatre look no further than Watford's Clarendon Road. Wilde's way with words demands complete ...

... A Lonely Cowboy in Athens, 23 minutes, no English subtitles A NEW young composer featured in i this programme that consisted of a little film shooting around Athens, happy songs, some cartoons and some animation. The songs were acted out in some simple sketches of the boy and girl kind. The producer changed scene and changed pace in the numbers chosen. The cartoons and animation were used to ...