... 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 ...

... BRADFORD 'THE KING' THE legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has fascinated poets, painters, authors and playwrights for centuries, so much so that there would appear to be little more dramatic mileage left in the subject apart from the sort of total debunking David Cregan tried so unsuccessfully at the Shaw in London recently. Yet with his latest play. The King, Richard ...

... 'THE MAN WHO KNEW HE WAS JESUS CHRIST' MICHAEL G. Jackson's The May Who Knew He Was Jesus Christ, the latest evening production at the King's Head Theatre Club in Islington, begins extremely well, carries on very well, then, in the second act, goes totally to pieces. The child Jesus, born of a bingo-going type of working class woman, and a tall, fat rough Joseph, is seen in childhood and ...

... The Magic Man MAY FAIR Opened December 13 A LONG-RUNNING success in the States, Barbara and Anthony D'A-mato's strange little musical The Magic Man proves, well not exactly disappointing, but rather different from what we expected. The songs, and there are only about half a dozen of them, have a slickness and? nuity; the book, however, is a reach- me-down affair which smacks vaguely of old ...

... The Kingfisher Quest BIRMINGHAM BRUM STUDIO'S Christmas season opened last week with The Kingfisher Quest. described as an 'Oriental tale of intrigue and daring' for seven to eleven year olds. It deals with the perils and pitfalls which beset those in search of the world's most beautiful emerald, where? ure means death. It is the combined effort of Roger Lancaster and Chris topher Honer who ...

... THE SECOND MONDAY A. S. ROBERTSON'S third play for One Man Theatre Company, The Second Monday, is an effective monologue for a man of indetermin ate age in that decaying state which is not quite tramp nor yet quite acceptable humanity. Close on one hour's running time is perhaps a little over-long for a flash-back as the man is shifted out of his dilapidated room through a succ ession of ...

... Israeli history EDINBURGH Pool Lunch Hour, Theatre are celebrating their third birthday with a brisk production of The Moshe Dayan Extravaganza by Michael Almaz, associate director of the Pool. The cast of three, Irene Sunters, Tutte Lemkow and the Pool's own director, Phil Emanuel, take the audience on a guided tour of Israeli history from the time of Abraham to the present day. To compress ...

... Outreach 'Judge for Yourself' OUTREACH, one ot the two professional theatre teams based on the Cockpit Theatre which specialise in playing to audiences for whom their plays are specially tailored, have taken an everyday problem again in Judge for Yourself, that of ordinary people who suddenly find selves involved with the law. They are touring it to colleges of further education, youth ...

... Foretaste of 'Ring' THE FORTHCOMING two complete cycles of Wagner's Ring in Andrew Porter's translation constitute this year's major operatic achievement at the Coliseum, giving English-speaking audiences their first chance to fully understand the text of this great and complex work while it is being sung A foretaste, as it were, is now available on a couple of discs which Sadler's Wells ...

... Nigerian National Troupe AS PART of their two-month tour of Eastern and Western Europe, the Nigerian National Troupe are this week presenting a Fantasia of Dance and Music at the Round House. The programme is made up of song. instrumental playing and dance, ritual, courtly and pea sant of the Northern and South-Eastern States and of the Edo people. It ends with the Nigerian equivalent of ...

... HELD UP for a day by the Canadian Airlines' strike, Codco opened late at the Collegiate. This Canadian experimental theatre troupe had been selected to initiate the new commercial lettings policy each summer at the Collegiate; it would be nice to say that the performance of Laugh Your Guts Out With Total Strangers on June 30 was worth waiting for and got the new venture off to a good ...