... Twisting the knife FARNHAM Ding Dong Dead JUST when you think you have seen every twist and turn of the thriller world along comes another who-dun-it to prove you wrong. Such an one is Ding Dong Dead by Robert Thomas, adapted by Mawby Green and Ed Fielbert. The set by Janey Gardiner is the liv ing room of a lonely house in the Chevreusc Valley in France. The empty room is in darkness until a ...

... FILM VIEW Margaret Cowan's THIS week saw the beginning of the new Autumn schedules, and among them the new filmed series. More will follow as time slots become available. So this is as good a time as any to review the TV film field from the actor's point of view. What are the opportunities and what, if any, are the draw backs One thing is certain the filmed series, in one form or an other, ...

... Brasil Women in the eighties, 51 minutes, no subtitles WOMAN'S lot today seen through the eyes of seven women who have made their career in music was the subject of this entry which must have been spoiled for many because it was in Portuguese and there were no subtitles. Each of the women talked and then performed, but since there was quite a lot of conversation in the form of interviews, it ...

... West Germany Julia's Guide to the Opera, 26 minutes, English subtitles OPERA singer and comedienne Julia Migenes was the star of this satirical Iook at popular opera. A striking red head, she began with some clowning at a dress rehearsal before intro ducing straight to camera the main sequence which was a take-off of Don Giovanni. Thanks to the star's performance this had some very funny and ...

... Yugoslavia Don't shut your TV, 29 minutes ITHIS had English subtitles for links only and. since it was meant to be a satirical look at contemporary life and at television, this was a pity. The designer had put in some good work on the sets, animation, graphics and chromakey to fit his subject. A very glamorous blonde dancer doing a rock number got the show under way, followed by a group who ...

... WHAT she claims to be the first Welsh television puppet series is the creation of Jane Phillips. It all started, the says. when she gave a five-minute glove-puppet show in Welsh last Christinas as part of the BBC's Welsh children's magazine gramme. Telewek, which goes out in the mornings on Satur days. Following (he Initial ven ture, Ifan O. Williams, the pro gramme's producer, invited ...

... RICHARD MARKS, designer for ihe Liverpool Repertory Com pany, has excelled himself in the boiuifuHy s'.agcd and dressed pro duction of Glad Tidings, an American comedy by Edward Mably, presented on Tuesday last, at (he Liverpool Playhouse. The whole spirit of ihe play is gay and exhilarating, with wedJ- clched and well pUived charactci studies. Taking place on (he terrace of Steve Whitney's ...

... 'Two Plays' TWO one-act plays by the Polish author Slawomir Mrozek, were presented at the Traverse Theatre. Edinburgh, on August 28. The Party in its original language may have held some deep significance for Polish audiences, but it must be admitted that most of the audience at the Traverse at the opening performance seemed somewhat puzzled. Three young men noisily burst into a room, ...

... The Bevellers EDINBURGH THE LYCEUM seems to be attached to the seventies this season. After the success of The Comedians, the company has now revived another play in which flapping flares and mohair coats are de rigueur. The Bevellers is the story of a run- of-the-mill working day in a bevelling factory. An explanation of the craft is slipped in incongruously as there is a new boy on his first ...

... SNAPS The 1996 Rose Bruford Memorial Trust Director's Award has been given to Nigel E Higginson from Manchester. He will work at the city's Royal Exchange, Northern Broadsides and Sheffield Crucible. Britain's only indepen dent design course will be holding its end of year exhibition at The Royal National Theatre studio next week. The Motley Theatre Design show will include scale models of ...

... FILM VIEW I PROMISED readers of this column more details of the newly-formed Rapallo Pictures, now in the process of making their first series, an anthology of half-hour plays with the over-all title of Rendezvous. Here thev are. This first venture is partly financed by America's C.B.S. and our own Associated-Rediffusion. C.B.S. will distribute in the Western Hemisphere and A-R in the ...

... VALERY HOVENDENS current production of Macbeth at the Hovenden Theatre Club from Sunday to Friday of this week, prior to a special performance at the George Inn. Southwark, on Saturday afternoon, is virtually the same as that which gained acclaim during their Malta season last December. Inevitably there have had to be some cast changes, and this week sees Viera Shelley making her debut ...