... LIGHTHOUSE THEATRE ON THE WAY into Crouch End from central London, there is one of those now disused church halls which are rapidly becoming focal points for community activities of all kinds. The Edison Road church halls, it is hoped, will house a range of activities from old aee pensioners' luncheon clubs to karate, from bingo to playgroups, from pottery to theatre. The Lighthouse Theatre ...

... IN A WELL-REASONED programme note to Dr. Angelus, which Pitlochry Festival introduced as its second producion of this season on April 22, a claim is made that a reassessment of James Bridie may reveal him as a dramatist who has something for the 1970's. The light in which it is sug gested this may develop is in the reaction of modern audiences to Bridie's revelation of the complex ...

... THE BUSH 'A NAVAL OCCASION' IF NOTHING else, an actor should be able to write effectively for other actors, and this Henry Woolf does with a true theatrical flourish in A Naval Occasion, at the Bush. In fact, one could say that Mr Woolf specialises in that very English art of the tirade, which is a bit unnerving at close quarters. A Naval Occasion is apparently about the English need to ...

... Personality of the Week PETER STEVENSON is one of the most gifted and interesting young directors to emerge in recent years, and his latest production, of Nightlight at the King's Head Theatre Club. Islington, shows to striking ad vantage his feeling for at mosphere and ability to build it up, his subtle and telling arran gement of movement and posi tion, his imaginative way with detail, which ...

... 'WUSHU DELEGATION' AT THE COLISEUM R B MARRIOTT REVIEWS Opened May 19 THE Wushu Delegation of China with their production of martial arts, sport scenes and acrobatics, have come to the Coliseum, swords and daggers and fists to the fore. Tradition and history and social life among the masses are embedded in these various physical exhibi tions which are performed with wonderful precision, pan ...

... CARDIFF 'SNOWDROPPER' IT IS A matter of no little pleasure to Welsh theatregoers that a principal Welsh writer (books, television plays and stage work) has at last seen the production of one of his works in his home land. He is Alun Richards, whose political thriller Snowdropper was presented by the Welsh Drama Company at Sherman, Car diff. One wishes him well, he plainly is trying to say ...

... BIRMINGHAM 'BEATRICE Dl TENDA' A NEW production of Bellini's opera Beatrice di Tenda was presented, sadly, for only two performances under the direction of Jocelyn Powell at the Barber Institute at Birmingham University. The story of Beatrice, falsely convicted of adultery and put to death by her second husband, is treated with a better sense of tragedy than Bellini normally shows. Yet ...

... BELFAST TNE DO IT FOR LOVE' A NEW play, We Do It For Love by Patrick Galvin, the resident play wright at the Lyric Players. Belfast is attracting full houses and enthu siastic audiences. Deservedly so. It is _ set in the Belfast of today, a sad city a city in which husbands and son; are murdered because of their politi cal and religious affiliations, when people are arrested and detained ir ...

... Personality of the week ANGELA RICHARDS, who is at present appearing at Oxford Playhouse in Happy End, attracted particular attention from the critics when she played Lucy Lockit in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of 'The Beggar's Opera in 1972, and she was also much praised for ner performance as Eve Harrington in Applause at Her Majesty's She studied at the Royal Academy of ...

... EMLYN WILLIAMS AS CHARLES DICKENS R. B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS Opened February 4 IT IS almost a quarter of a century since Emlyn Williams first appeared in his solo performance as Charles Dickens reading from his novels. Since then he has taken the performance to many parts of the world and made several West F.nd appearances. He turns up again, at the Haymarket. with F.mlyn Williams as Charles ...

... In the Red WHITEHALL Opened March 25 DADDY (playwright David Clifton) is in the red. To the tune of a measly £11.000. For some reason or other, his ungentlemanly bank manager Charles Bentworth takes it into his head to stop cashing Daddy's cheques: did you ever hear anything like it? So what will poor Daddy do then, poor thing? Write a new play? Get a decent job? Cut down on his gambling? ...

... Vampire BUSH SNOO WILSON'S Vampire at thf Bush Theatre has a third act completely rewritten from the original of some ten years ago. In fact, it is less a case of three acts than of three short plays with a tenuous thread of family woven with one of theme to hold the web together--the bloodsucker of me uue is less a maucr ui ui ...