... 'Cambusdonald' THE EDINBURGH PEOPLE'S Theatre, steadfast exponents of native Scottish comedy, present in this year's Edinburgh Festival fringe productions James Scotland's Cambusdonald Royal, directed by Marillyn Gray. Cambusdonald Koyal is a Scottish comedy which has style. The auld Scots speech marks its sturdy texture upon the ear, the main performances get invigorating caricature and the ...

... Drums in the Night' PLAYS FOR THE ordinary man like Drums in the Night are not often seen at the Edinburgh Traverse. Concerning plain folk with evident problems and common anxieties and holding some approach in common sense, such work needs only to be well written and well performed and it satisfies. Bertolt Brecht, adapted in Drums by C. P. Taylor, had this clear advantage. He evokes a ...

... Dreyfus THE premiere of the new play by Michael Almaz, Dreyfus on Devil's Island, turns out to be a monologue. Presented at the Pool Lunch Hour Theatre, Edinburgh, it is another essay into making the words flesh by presenting an account of a personality, and his circums tances, on stage. David Mouchtar-Samorai is the actor to make a perform- mance, this time, out of words which might as ...

... The Amazons ACTORS COMPANY SOME time last year, the Canonbury Tower Theatre Company unearthed a rarely revived Pinero--The Amazons,last seen in London before that in 1927. The Actors' Company has had a considerable success with its production of the same play on tour and it reached London, or at any rate the Wimble don Theatre, last week. Pinero's own description was a romantic farce, ...

... 'STEVIE' AT THE VAUDEVILLE Susan Corbett reviews Opened March 23 I'M LOW on energy, says Glenda Jackson's Stevie in Hugh White-more's dramatic portrait of Stevie Smith, the poet. Funny: till then it had seemed that energy was the lady's middle name. Perhaps she means that she reserves her energy for the important things in life: her relationship with her beloved sur- burban aunt, and her ...

... The Travelling Music Show HIS MAJESTY'S Opened March 28 WHY, we asked ourselves as we left Her Majesty's. The Travelling Music Show? Why not The Bruce Forsyth Show? Or maybe Bruce Forsyth and Friends? Or perhaps Bruce Forsyth and Friends Sing the Rest of Bricusse and It is described as a sort of songbook. though preliminary publicity led us to believe that it was a kind of musical ...

... 'A DAY FOREVER' AT THE OPEN SPACE Anne Morley-Priestman reviews Opened January 31 I'M ALL for realism in drama, but you can take it too far in the theatre, in the case of Michael Sharp's A Day Forever, the author appears to have tugged one way, the director (Madhav Sharma) in another and the designer (Jane Smith) in a third. It adds up to tedium with more longeurs than the most tentative ...

... Sticks and Bones NEW END SHIPPED home blind from the Vietnamese war, former US soldier David presents his family with a substantial problem. He no longer begins to fit into their run-of-the- mill. suburban way of life-- a fact which he loses no time in demonstrating in no uncertain anti-social terms. Kitchen-oriented mother Harriet is ill equipped to cope: junk food is her answer to every ...

... Double bill KINGSTON KINGSTON OVERGROUND had Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy working well on the opening night last week but the curtain raiser in the double bill, White Liars, was too matter of fact and lacked in expression. No doubt it will warm up. The timing of David McAlister and Lisa Evans as Brindsley and Carol Melkett was superb during the long 'dark' spell and. in the 'light' period ...

... OUR THEATRE IN THE NINETIES SECOND year stage students at Glasgow's School of Drama recently presented, at the Athenaeum Theatre a bill of excerpts from Pinero, St John Hankin, Wilde and Shaw, under the title Our Theatre in the Nineties. In Act 1 of Wilde s An Ideal Husband Patricia Ross showed an attractive stage presence and considerable vocal resource as the scheming Mrs Cheveley. Sandy ...

... Publicity conference ANOTHER in the series of publicity conferences organised by the Coun cil of Regional Theatres is to be held at the National Theatre on February 23. It will deal with design and print techniques and will include a tour of Battley Brothers (Printers) Ltd in Clapham. ...

... 'The Rebel Kinsman' I have serious reservations that the Belgrade's TIE house production this year is suitable for its intended audience of seven to eleven year old children. The production is a new play by Ron Rose called The Rebel Kinsman and is set in the time of the English Civil Wars. It is a play characterised by a marked didactic intent to get over the Orwellian message that all ...