... The Western Kirkby Cowboy' THE Everyman Company, at present on tour, deserves a medal for sustaining the itinerary alone which includes Liverpool, Chester and Lancaster, as well as ten Merseyside venues in just under three weeks. So when it also produces a rumbustious cowbov sinealong on a practically bare Students' Union refectory floor hallmarked with expected Every man excellence, ...

... Early Shakespeare and the Late Marlowe' EARLY Shakespeare and the Late Marlowe is a swift and imaginative piece of drama which appeals to its audience in a very direct way. Author Michael Moriarty. a Questors member for some six years, displays an acute sense of humour in this, his first play. The young and naive William Shakespeare is married to Ann Hathaway but enjoys a handy fling with ...

... 'WOE. BABYLON' I SUPPOSE if you can make a ballet or two out of the Book of Job, to make a rock opera out of the Lamentations of Jeremiah is not all that problematical. In any case, that is what Jim Cuomo, Michael Hanks and Sandy Spencer have done at the Round House Downstairs; they call it woe! Babylon set it in modern New York but with the air of a traditional morality wrapped around it ...

... TIPPITY. FLIP-FLOP, GUM0R0PS AND BOOTS' THE NEW home-grown children's show at the Woolwich Tramshed is a creation of the same team who devised the successful and excellent Christmas one-- John Cooper and Stephen Wyatt with musical direction by Joe Griffiths. This Easter attraction has the somewhat bersome title of Tippity, Flip-Flop, Gumdrops and Boots they are all dolls made by a skilled ...

... '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 ...

... 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, ...

... 23rd National Student Drama Festival COLLEGE THEATRE/CLIVE WOLFE IN VIEW of the growing list ot companies giving donations to the 23rd National Student Drama Festival, of which Granada. Thames and Anglia TV are the latest, it is entirely appropriate that contemporary concern is one of the keynotes of this year's 16 finalists in Durham (March 28 to April 2). Concern about the aftermath of a ...

... Jim Dale is a hit in The Card' DENRY MACHIN, the extraordinary man invented by Arnold Bennett for his novel The Card, has a colossal self-centredness, an irrepressible nature and an energy which make him an eminently suitable character for the cal which opened at the Queen's on July 24. The book by Keith Waterhouse and Will is Hall shows Machin's success ful rise to fame and fortune as ...

... PETER SHAFFER EXPLORES YOUTH'S MENTAL WORLD by Douglas Blake PSYCHIATRY can remove a passionate obsession from a man's brain, but in destroying the obsession it leaves a void that can never be filled. In his new play Equus, Peter Shaffer explores the strange mental world of a youth who has blinded six horses with a metal spike, and the uncovering of the layers of mental anguish hiding the ...

... Woodward and Dench in Molnar's 'Wolf' OUR WARMEST GRATITUDE is due to Frank Hauser and the Oxford Playhouse Company for bringing to our notice Ferenc Molnar's The Wolf, given its English premiere at the Playhouse. On the evidence now before us. The Wolf has not deserved its neglect in Bri tain. It was first staged in English, in a translation by Leo Dichtricstein, by David Belasco in New ...

... 'THE CASTAWAY' MOST of us probably know William Cowper as the author of John Gilpin and unless we have studied his work, very little else. Yet a one-man show around his life and work entitled The Castaway was dramatised and performed as part cf the Merton Festival at the Ken neth Black Memorial Hall by the actor. David Gooderson. on May 16. It was an unusual performance. Beginning with ...