... Boeing Boeing EXETER THE SUMMER SEASON at the Northcott Theatre Exeter begins with a revival of that classic comedy of the student of form and the air line hostesses, Boeing Boeing which opened on July 10 and runs until August 9. For a play that is now 18 years old it holds its humour well, although in the present decade when comedy is more abrasive than it used to be, the characters need to ...

... Joycemen DUBLIN THE PROGRAMME notes for Joycemen include a 1904 map of Dublin which shows the points in the city in which the 13 vignettes from the work of James Joyce take place. Joycemen is performed and de vised by Eamon Morrissey, and he presents it in the traditional Irish storyteller format. The characters are taken from Ulysses, and Mor rissey keeps them in the author's chronology ...

... Postcards In A Glass CARDIFF MADNESS lies at the heart of the latest Cardiff Laboratory Theatre presentation--the bizarre, the fanciful, the evocative, the illogical, the nightmarish. It provides a jumping -off point for theatrical realisation of the physical actions in disturbed minds, and the fantasies they may stimulate in the minds of onlookers. After all, asylum tours were once part of ...

... GLASGOW GLASGOW Citizens' own young touring group, TAG (Theatre About Glasgow) staged a first rate production of Harold Pinter's , directed by Ian Wooldridge with a keen appreciation of the dramatist's expertise in setting up engimatic situations. But, although the play begs just as many questions as it did in 1958 (most of which remain unanswered), one thing at least is now certain; that ...

... NORTHAMPTON WITH violence and horror rampant on cinema and television screens, it is doubtful that anyone today is frightened by . But by keeping faithfully to the period style, David Kelsey's production at the Northampton Royal Theatre preserved the vintage charm of Arnold Ridley's comedy thriller. If the cobwebs in the dialogue caused a few titters and smiles, the antics of Antony ...

... LIVERPOOL THE EXCELLENCE of both playwright and director blend most happily in Liverpool Playhouse's, inspired production of Michael Frayn's . The evening is like a moving hard-edge abstract, the five actors dressed solely in dazzling white, passing and repassing within a geometric, taut weave, behind which appear representational clouds, a car and scaffolding all de signed by Bim ...

... Public Property YOUNG VIC ONE RATHER feels that Roger Newman is guilty of much of what he seems to be complaining about in his play Public Property an account of the career of Marilyn Monroe, produced by CG and Company at the Young Vic Studio. as tne well Known turn star suD- ject of the play was with us in com paratively recent times, her life must indeed seem like public property to 27 ...

... Barking to The Angel THREE HORSESHOES A CLEVER word play in the title is just about all there is on offer in Barking to the Angel by Carol Gould, presented by CG and Company at the Three Horseshoes, Hampstead. The title in fact, incorporates the names of two London Underground stations. Set in a flat in Knightsbridge Knightsbridge seems a curious choice for several reasons, most of them ...

... Springbok CARDIFF THOUGH professional sports are becoming more and more like showbiz entertainment, dramatists for the stage rarely choose sport as their subject matter. Undaunted, Michael Picardie set the whole of his new full-length play Springbok on a rugby field in South Africa. And the production by the Sherman Arena Company of Cardiff worked remarkably well. It was imaginatively co ...

... Good Morning Bill BOLTON P. G. WODEHOUSE was, and remains, one of the very few writers in the English language capable of making me laugh aloud while strap- hanging on the Northern Line. Bolton may be a far cry from Mar ket Blandings, but on a warm sum mer evening director Colin Bean and his Octagon Theatre cast soon had me totally convinced that not far away Blandings Castle would be nestling ...

... Side by Side by Sondheim CHESTER A SURPRISE PACKAGE from the Gateway Theatre, Chester, delighted a packed audience and provided a slick cavalcade of songs, comedy and general merriment. The end product of director Chris Honer's hard labour was certainly i more a show than a play but the real key to the astonishing success of this extravaganza lies in workman like presentation and in the ...

... MAIDSTONE HAZLITT THEATRE boss John Spillers has written and directed another magical masterpiece for Maidstone. It s a nice, homely panto packed with fun, action and lively songs, starring Paul Harris and his 16 costumes as Sarah The Cook and singer JJ King as Dick, once again proving that Spillers' policy of casting men as principal boys works. But the most memorable perform ances come from ...