... FARNHAM THE LORD'S LIEUTENANT' Opened November 13 'THE Lord's Lieutenant, a new play, and a serious one, by William Douglas Home, was given its premiSre at the Redgrave, Farnham. It had been specially written for the Redgrave by the author, who lives locally, and is president of the theatre appeal fund. All the action takes place inside a village church. A pop- singer, asked to open the ...

... 'THE END OF ME OLD CIGAR' R.B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS Opened January 16 JOHN OSBORNE'S new play, The End of Me Old Cigar, at Greenwich Theatre, has at its centre, and radiating influences, instructions, demands and commands, Lady Regine Frimley, who comes from the darker parts of London, but has risen in the world, to become the wealthy owner of a very high class brothel in one of the best of ...

... COCKPIT DOUBLE-BILL PARADISE Foundry began their spring tour on January 13 at the Cockpit with a double-bill written by Gabriel Josipovici and directed by the company's new permanent director Barry Edwards. Dreams of Mrs Fraser was originally seen at the Theatre Upstairs: this tion is more stark and uses less tricks, thus increasing its effective ness. The part of Mrs Fraser, the ship ...

... Personality of the Week THERE are a number of excellent performances in The Sash by Hector MacMillan, now at Hamp- stead Theatre Club, but perhaps ANDREW KEIR may be singled out because he co-directed the play with the author His study of the drunken, obsessed Orange man Bill MacWilliam is very fine, and the direction brings to the work great power and emotional strength, and reveals its ...

... SCOTTISH BALLET PREMIERES 'MARY' SCOTTISH Ballet are certainly adventurous and bold. The new full-length ballet Mary Queen of Scots, choreographed by the company's artistic director Peter Darrell, and given its world premiere in the elegant redecorated Theatre Royal, Glasgow, on March 3, is an bracing production with memorable blue and silver colourings, good performances by the company, ...

... Hampstead 'Morecambe': 'Wordplay' Opened December 11 TWO PLAYS, with a separate ticket for each, are running at Hampstead Theatre Club: Franz Kroetz's Morecambe and Roger McGough's Wordplay. More cambe, which won a prize at the Edinburgh Festival this year, con sists of a series of brief episodes showing the life of a lower class, poorly paid married couple. Harry and Ann. Fantasies of ...

... RICHMOND ROYAL SCHOOL BOTH Upper School students and Lower School pupils joined forces for this year's Royal Ballet School week at Richmond Theatre, with programmes using the two sections together and separately. At the July 16 matinee the Lower School was seen in Permutations. a piece specially choreographed by Richard Glasstone with music com posed by Andrew West, and showing the senior ...

... Woolwich 'Bring Back the Cat' DOWN AT THE Tramshed in Woolwich, quite a lot of stirring, including trouble if Greenwich Theatre, whose baby this relaxed and attractive entertainment place is, does not do something to stop the noise from the bar and foyer overpowering the best efforts of the company in the auditorium proper. It is surely not asking too much to request that patrons who have ...

... Farnham 'Moving House' THEIDEA, unlike all the bric-a-brac, never quite got off the ground in Moving House by Fay Weldon, which had its world premiere at the Redgrave, Farnham, last week. Miss Weldon is well-known both as a radio and television writer, and this,' her first attempt at a full-length stage play, ssmacks of camera shots: without a camera and close-ups that the audience cannot ...

... Shaftesbury 'Liza of Lambeth' SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S first novel, a sad, sombre naturalistic story of life in the East End of London in the nineties, has been turned into a rollicking musical. Liza of Lambeth, at the Shaftesbury. The show is far away from Maugham, in focus, atmosphere and cnaracter, out even on its own terms is not a success. Rollicking, and a touch of the pearlies, is not ...

... 'THE TURNING POINT' AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S R.B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS Opened September 26. HOW DANGEROUS it is to satirise, or just send-up. a certain type of play in the course of another type. The writer must at least be as good as his target, if not better. In 'The Turning Point at the Duke of York's. Francoise Dorin attacks avant garde theatre. She does a dou Die. however, also showing up ...

... Personality of the week JENNIE STOLLER. who has gained such excellent notices for her work in Sam Shepard's Action at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, is a good example of the intelligent and aware young actresses who abound in the theatre these days. Such artists are interested in the theatre not only as a means of expression but in its social rele vance and in new forms of theatrical ...