... Looking to the future LAMP Liaison of Actors, Managements and Playwrights staged Conscience Factor, a new play by Robin Eddison, adapted and directed by Douglas Blake, in the Welsh Congregational Chapel Hall, Chelsea, on June 12. It is set in the next cen tury and we are not very sur prised to learn that England suf fered financial collapse in the nineteen-seventies. Building of private ...

... LUNCH IN THE PARK A SURPRISE ending does not justify 29 minutes of extremely slow and inconsequential dialogue in Comedy Playhouse (BBC-tv, December 22). Stanley Baxter was a War Office Clerk who, every Tuesday for the past 10 years has been lunching with a middle aged secretary (Daphne Ander son) and sharing prawn sand wiches and small talk. This Slice of Life was obviously written from ...

... Edited by Mollie Ellis Jimmy Logan, the comedian, now in revue at Newcastle Royal, appealed to Scottish viewers on BBC-TV on Sunday on behalf of the Scottish Association of Boys' Clubs. Alan Steel was one of the enter ic tainers in a show put on at the Star and Garter Home, Surrey, on January '5- ^C 0 Recently, when Lonnie Donegan, now playing Buttons in Cinderella 7* at Birmingham ...

... THE JOHNNY DARLING SHOW BRILLIANTLY satirical and fresh as airconditioning, the JOHNNY DARLING SHOW (BBC-ty November 12th) earns the highest possible praise. Original and refreshing, this was first class television enter tainment and justifies Gurney Slade in which Anthony New- ley experimented with a brand of fantasy too sophisticated for TAM. Having switched channels, Newlev flitted, like ...

... the dancers DANCE In international ballet seasons at Golders Green and Streatham Hill, ALL the stars will appear at EVERY performance, that is eight times in a week. This was once customary, but in recent years stars incline to take it easy, appearing only two or three nights a week the parts in which they most shine. And in a limited season such as the one planned for International Stars ...

... CPECIALLY commissioned for the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Jeppe of the Mountain is Michaeil Meyer's first translation from the Danish, and the freedom and fluency of the language, at two levels-- peasant and high born-- is one of the commendatory points of Terry Lane's production, which opened on April 13. The others are the comedy vir tuosity of Clyde Pollitt in the name part and Sheila ...

... RUNNING RIOT, a farcical comedy by Derek Benfield, is to be given eight performances at Wormwood Scrubs Prison before an audience of prisoners and staff, starting on May 10. The male members of the cast, set designer and stage management are prisoners. nc women 5 pari are 10 t>e piayea by Ethel Revnell, Pamela Vezey, 1 Betsy Donovan and Diane Keen, who are giving their professional services. ...

... Pigeon fancier BASIL WILBY-S first play, The Pigeon Fancier, which had its premiere at the Phoenix, Leicester, on August 26, is an Ortonesque comedy which never really recovered from a sluggish first act. It contains too many poor jokes about pigeon's excre ment for one thing, and the dialogue rarely reaches a high standard. The play is set in -the squalid London home of blind Mrs. Prior. ...

... THE FULL FORCE of the satirical comedy in Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro is brought out in John Wood's new translation which had its premiere at the Castle. Farnham, on Monday under the direction of Caroline Smith. The veil ol frivolity is torn aside trom time to time as Gavin Reed in the title role gives voice to the author's revolutionary thoughts an excellently conceived perform ...

... NO-ONE has any doubt that Chekhov was a great playwright, perhaps even a genius, and Allan Cook attempts to show the true man in his documentary play Chekhov which, after a showing at the Edinburgh Festival. was given two performances-this week at LAMDA, starting on Monday evening. Curiously enough, although brief episodes from Chekhov's early life, and one or two crucial events from ...

... Worthwhile show all round Not quite ready for peak viewing but a Between The Lines BBC-1, May 21. WHAT an excellent little revue this was! With the aid of an economical-looking but most flexible set (for which designer Guthrie Hutton deserves the highest praise) director David Bell has evolved a style of presentation which gave pace and How. Yet tie never made me feel that his experiments ...

... DAVID KOSSOFFS writing is as bold as his character acting -- and just as smaltzy -- as revealed in his own play, Big Night for Shylock, which opened at the Oldham Coliseum on September 10. It has plenty of Jewish warmth and wit, but like Mr. Kossoff, the actor, it seems to get carried away under its own steam. A/lthough rhe vein of humour running through Big Night for Shylock is. ...