... Lyceum is exposed as 'inadequate for ballet By ANN NUGENT IN ANOTHER twist to the Lyceum saga, the chairman of the Entertainment Corporation has claimed that the months spent campaigning to convert the Lyceum into a dance theatre were a waste of time. Peter Brightman, who is responsible for bringing major companies from the USSR to Britain, said this week that if the Lyceum project had gone ...

... RECESSION has hit this year's international trade show of the Professional Lighting And Sound Association with bookings down by almost 15 per cent for the event next week. Cost cutting companies have toned down their presence at the ninth annual trade show which has been cut back to occupy only three floors of London's Olympia 2 conference cen tre. However, PLASA is hoping its show could ...

... Sir Jasper Tries It On FESTIVAL CLUB THE FARCE of a farce that not only sends up the form but vindicates it triumphantly. Sir Jasper has droit de seigneur and gives himself a few more rights besides, like trying to bump off his wife with some handy arsenic This dastardly plot is foiled by almost everyone else, each more improbably than the laat, by leaving either a purgative or an ...

... The Noise And Smoky Beneath Show ASSEMBLY ROOMS THIS devised piece for schools and com munity centres takes 30 poets from and about Glasgow. From the moment the first solo read is interrupted by the other three performers sneaking in, to the last rumbustious chorus their approach is less than reverent. They take us on a journey round Glasgow by bus and by underground as well as through the ...

... Ave Maria ASSEMBILY ROOMS THIS IS the one-hander that does speak of a life beyond, where the surface does indicate an existence before and after the performance. And Linda Kerr Scott is a comic actress at the height of her powers using her body as if she was a jumping jack, or a demented rag doll after electric shock treatment, filling the stage with the narrowness and pain of her life. ...

... Driftwood HARRY YOUNGER HALL RAW POWER Theatre's production of William J Wright's new play is a penetrating exploration of human relationships under pressure of dark surprises, and at the same time a political parable on Gorbachev-era East-West relations. Jacob and Kate are happily married until Emilia arrives out of the blue from Poland; she is determined to stay and have 'a happier life' in ...

... Slight Possession RICHARD DEMARCO GALLERY TALKING Tongues is a young company of evident talent and innovative skill. Sasha Hails and Rachel Weisz fuse dia logue, often highly repetitive, movement which is frcquendy highly physical and even dangerous, and minute observation and changes of mood to create a highly- charged atmosphere, the context for the disturbing and weird relationship of the ...

... The Chance EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE STUDIO IN THIS Orwellian-stylc fantasy superbly enacted by Dusi (Durham University Student Theatre) the world has been taken over extra-terrestrial beings, the 'Fasters' who never appear but whose presence is all- pervasivc. Consumerism and technological- progress are pursued with extreme efficiency and ruthless individualism, and human rcl- t Kinships have ...

... Weisman And Copperface TRAVERSE THEATRE AMID the plethora of AIDS plays, Weisman And Copperface reminds us that prejudice predates the 1980s by a millenruum or two. The title is fairly self explanatory-a Jew meets an American Indian (in the Nevada desert as it happens) and they battle to find which has been the most persecuted race. Adding to the victims is Weisman's daughter who, in ...

... Never Never Land ROMAN EAGLE LODGE NEVER Never I .and is a new play by Will Pease presented by the Theatre Zoo Company at the Roman Eagle Lodge Theatre. The Production is supported by Charter 88, a non-party group pressing for political reform that has become a nation wide organisation. I found it a great disappointment and quite the worst acted and badly written show that I have so far seen ...

... A Stop In The Desert RICHARD DEMARCO GALLERY ONE COULD not help feeling, brilliant as Teatr Grupa Chwilowa were in this warming and allusive joint Polish-Russian production, that this was more than just another Fringe staging for Edinburgh impresario Richard Demarco. oureiy, in more ways man one, nc was trying to cock a snoot at the Scottish arts establishment, which he feels has neglected him ...

... A Dybbuk For Two People ASSEMBLY ROOMS ONE OF the outstanding dramatic perfor mances at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe is undoubtedly a Dybbuk For Two People at the Assembly Rooms. Bruce Myers, an actor well known for his work with Peter Brook, has cleverly adapted Anski's famous play so that he and his wife, Corine Jaber, can play all the roles. It tells an eerie tale of a young girl's ...