... And Then There Was A Star Who Danced PLEASANCE PERFORMED by Harriet Buchan, this is the tale of legendary actress Ellen Terry, as portrayed by writer/producer Brian Taylor. Her story switches between narration and dramatic recreation and Buchan makes the transition with ease. Enveloped with Victorian paraphernalia, she passes through her life from childhood through to her later roles as ...

... The Tower FESTIVAL CLUB THIS three-act plav by Gwenlyn Parry was first written in colloquial North Walian Welsh for performance at the 1978 Welsh National Eisteddfod. Staged in English for the first time by Adfel Theatre Company (Cwmni Theatr Adfel), it retains faint regional references but mainly in the first act. Though set in the late twentieth centu ry, it has a fascinatingly timeless feel ...

... THE FESTIVAL CLUB THE OPENING scenes of deft and funny clowning promised well here, but as the two actors moved into verbal, situation comedy, the humour teetered on the edge of the bizarre, sometimes falling off. I think that great comedy arises out of characters, which need to be really real and unforced, lived rather than assumed. These characters, though hitting the mark sometimes, were ...

... DEMARCO'S THE T HEATRE Kana Association was established in Szezecin (Poland) in 1978 and have presented their work in Moscow and Berlin, as well as their own country and were on the Fringe of Edinburgh International Festival at Richard Demarco's new venue in York Place. Moscow Petushki is a monologue based on a novel with the same title by Venedict Yerofeyev. It begins with the stage in ...

... Our Brutus HILL STREET THEATRE THE stranger-than-fiction story of John Wilkes Booth, famous American actor who turned assassin of Abraham Lincoln, this play- forms Part Two of the fascinating and cleverly- wnttcn Booth Trilogy by David Beeler. The trilogy recounts the enthralling saga of this remarkable theatrical family, afflicted by a unique mixture of fame and notoriety, as the Civil War ...

... Fredd Wayne's Success At the Berkeley Restaurant. W.l, Fredd Wayne (from South Pacific scores a marked success with original patter, catchy songs, and crisp lyrics. At the start, after mentioning very many introductions and their outcome-- Flanagan meet ing Allen, Ava Gardner meeting Frank Sinatra, and so on he presents himself to patrons. Sly digs at British types are worked in, a brief but ...

... Andrew Millar Dick was in Jersey at Easier for the start of the cabaret i season at the Chateau Plaisir Hotel, where the Two Tomassos will be until the end of September. Other presentations arranged by Mr. Millar Dick, in conjunction with Percy Manchester, include Gordon j Whelan. who will be at the Somer- I ville Hotel from May II, the Harry Lester Hayseeds floorshow, which opens at the ...

... Possible Fortune Awaits Pioneer THE possibility of the successful staging of ice cabaret in hotels in this country is terrific, says Harry Harris, the agent who has travelled extensively in America to study various methods of ice presentation. Over in the United States they use a tank of about 20 ft. x 20 ft. and, in the more go-ahead places like the Conrad Hilton, Chicago, the whole thing ...

... ON January 25 Dorita Y Pepe are due lo make their sixth ap pearance on the BBC' Light Pro gramme's Guitar Club the only artists, save, of course. Ken Sykora and the resident group who have made, so many appearances. On Sunday, February 2, they will be in Follow the Stars, the Sun day night variety show on sound radio. Their recently-issued 12-in. LP record Amor, (The Art of Dorita y Pepe) ...

... VICTORIA PALACE 'NODDY IN TOYLAND' THE fidelity with which the same actors make their annual return to Noddy in Toyland makes comment more difficult as the years go by, for true to the requirements of the very young, the performances do not vary by a gesture from Christmas to Christmas, and the adult viewer expects little entertain ment. It is therefore pleasant to be able to report that ...

... THE ODEON WYATT EARP SHOW IT is a bit shattering, on entering the Odeon, Tottenham Court Road, to see Wyatt Earp's Western Variety Show, to be charged two shillings for a souvenir programme which, as it turns out, bears little reference to the running order of the actual show, as seen on Boxing Day. Group One according to the printed pro gramme -introduce Hugh O'Brian TV's Wyatt Earp, but ...

... LYRIC, HAMMERSMITH 'KING CHARMING' THIS enchanting Victorian panto mime, which was successfully produced at the Players' Theatre last year, is even better when seen on a larger and better equipped stage, and invokes the thought that, where pantomime is concerned there is much to be said for the good old days. Gwen Cherrell is no less delight ful as a romantic and enchanted Prince than in her ...