... FROM FILM to stage is not an uncommon translation but it is best that the origin should show too much. Unfortunately it is all too apparent at New End, where the stage version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's acclaimed movie proceeds in a fashion whereby one almost expects sub-titles, despite the fact that the English of Delphine Seyrig. playing the title role in The Bitter Tears of Petra von ...

... HOLLAND FESTIVAL THEATRE THE AMERICAN Place Theatre, given the status of the most official contribution of the Bicentennial in terms of theatre was a disappointment. This company from mid-town Manhattan, and normally playing to 290-odd people in a skyscraper basement theatre, ultra-modern we are told, may not have felt at ease in the horseshoe-shaped Stadss- chouburg of Amsterdam. ...

... 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 ...

... Chichester The Circle' Opened July 20 THE SOMERSET Maugham polish, irony, wit and theatrical panache are shining brightly at Chichester Festival Theatre, where The Circle, written in 1921, has joined the repertory. In addition to these attributes, there are titles, affluence, Parliamentary ambitions ble dresses and an elegant drawing room; all calculated to provide leisure entertainment ...

... Regent's Park 'Love's Labour's Lost Opened July 21 THERE IS a delightful production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Young love and young pretense, young vows and young ambitions are explored with a nice light comedy touch as the men who have foresworn women for study and the wumcii wiiu in v due uie vuuri ui Navarre battle joyously heart for heart. David ...

... Westcliff The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' WHEN PANTOMIME was invented, it took folk tales from all lands and was presented all through the year. Strange that the famous folk tales of America, Wild West cowboys and Indians, have been used so rarely. This musical, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, at Westcliff Pavi lion, has everything a good panto should have a colourful decor and costume, ...

... Domini Theatre 'Success Story' THE LONDON area Christian Arts Project, a predominantly evangelical concept although openly interdo- minational, has two drama areas--the use of word and movement within a church service to substitute for sermon or anthem or to illustrate some season of the church's year or contemporary issue of great impor tance, and the actual pertormance ot plays. Under ...

... A REVIVAL of The Fantas- ticks, claimed to be the world s longest surviving musical, is the next production at Norwich Theatre Royal, opening on Au gust 2 for two weeks. The cast includes Paul Jones, Derek Griffiths, Rosemary Wil liams, Richie Stewart and Chris topher Owen, and Tudor Davies directs. ...

... 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 ...

... BOTH as choreographer and dancer, Christopher Bruce is one of Ballet Rambert's greatest assets. Last week he was seen in both aspects of his talent, firstly as choieographer of Duets and later as dancer par excellence in Glen Tetley's Pierrot Lunaire. Duets. which opened on Sep tember 21, is an extraordinarily peaceful work, something along the lines of a latter-day Lilac Garden with ...

... 'THE SONS OF OEDIPUS' AT GREENWICH Opened February 3 EWAN HOOPER is right when in a programme note for The Sons of Oedipus at Greenwich, he claims Greek playscan kick you like a mule, and it is not his fault that this production turns out to have little more kick than a glass of flat beer. Translated by David Thompson from Euripides' The Phoenician Women. the play seems more than usually a ...

... Piccadilly 'Very Good Eddie' A REASONABLY PRICED ticket policy was introduced on January 31 at the Piccadilly, where Very Good. Eddie! is still enjoying its successful run. Though now over ten months old. the production has stayed surpris ingly fresh, the pre-First World War humour as artificially theatrical as ever and the cast continuing to avoid sending it up. The Jerome Kern songs on the ...