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... RELATIVELY SPEAKING A STAR-STUDDED cast recently filled the Questors Theatre in Ealing for the professional debut of Simon MacCorkindale's new company, Pendant Entertainments Productions, in Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking. The play includes all the ...
... scarf, his god-turned staff a walking stick. But he is given a sombre, thoughtful characterisation by Bill Wallis. Mr Wallis speaks with a compelling measured emphasis, freshness abounding in his big speeches. I would like to see him in a Brooke production ...
... has compiled a delightful entertainment party at the Almost Free to celebrate his 415th birthday. Of May Day celebrations he speaks, and tells an anecdote or two of mummer's plays and of Burb- age, of his son Hamlet and his play Julius Caesar. Geared to ...
... delivered from the con fines of a wheelchair, are simple and direct with a minimum of histrionics. He allows the words to speak for themselves, leaving the audience to draw their own conclusions from the stories. Anderson's performance is a reminder of ...
... reunion? Derek Farr as the elderly, self-doubting academic was rather good. His air of abstraction and declarative manner of speaking both inside and outside the classroom were fine brush strokes in a splendid portrait. He was ably supported by Pauline Yates ...
... frustrations, privations and hazards which black people so often have to endure As he begs for National Front membership, Gabriel speaks of the home, in Africa, to which he can always go. But one wonders if he will ever have a proper home, anywhere. The bleak ...
... detective adds light touches of com edy. One could claim it is all comedy although Sharon Lee Hill gets little fun out of the non-speaking secre tary. Anthony Calf plays Clegthorpe, Charles Rea is Crouch, and the jumpers are Floyd Bevan, David Dandridge, Timothy ...
... the house down. It is odd that Bernard and Robert, who are supposedly French, have English accents while the Air France girl speaks in gorgeous Gallic tones, but this is the only criticism. Richard Borthwick is great fun as bachelor Bernard, whose three ...
... superbly played by Cliff Howells. Even when silent and apparently comatose he seemed to participate as powerfully as he did when speaking. Crutch clutching and canny Pete was piaved endearingly by jeffrev L.ongmore. who improves with each production. He was ably ...
... but this, too, disappears without trace. Lynn Farleigh, clad in gold from skuil-cap to ballet -shoes, looks mar vellous and speaks with admirable clarity, while Ian Charleson and Julia McCarthy support her as doc tor and gentlewoman. Director is Jack Emery ...
... as villainess Regina and Paul O'Connor as the unscrupulous brother Oscar had greater success than anyone when it came to speaking low and exagger atedly. When they raised the pitch, however, success eluded them and an impression of affectation took over ...
... passages from his own poetry and plays. Philip Banyard, with the look of a youthful James M Mason, does the only eloquent speaking using his voice well in size and attack and in quieter passages too. The performance is interesting but it rarely has a standard ...