... Cabaret YORK THE YORK Theatre Royal Company, with its first musical for four years (except for Christmas shows), has met the special demands of Cabaret with considerable success. Director Michael Winter brought in Dudley Stevens as the Emcee who runs the tawdry revels in a low night club in Berlin in about 1930, and howls his welcome to thus un ashamed market-place of sex, tearing the ...

... Teeth 'n Smiles NOTTINGHAM FOR DAVID Hare's Teeth 'n' Smiles, Nottingham Playhouse has gathered a group of actors who are experienced musicians and have been involved with rock music. As a result, the atmosphere, the attitudes and the sound are all very authentic. uirected by Penny cnerns with a gritty, halting technique, it achieves a sort of terrible emptiness beneath the shaggy hair, the ...

... A Little Night Music EXETER WITH HIS production of A Little Night Music at the Northcott Theatre Exeter, director Richard Digby Day once more reveals one of those exquisitely elegant performances which has earned the Devon theatre its reputation of theatrical style and production which can rival some of the best in London s West End. Stephen Sondheim's musical plav demands elegance and ...

... The Room RICHMOND CONTINUING its policy of altern ating new with established work. Richmond Fringe at the Orange Tree pub has revived Pinter's first play. The Room performed at lunchtime is seen less often than some of the others, but there in its short playing time are all the seeds of drama to come, well and truly sprouting. Nick Woods has directed it in a decep tively straight -forward ...

... Box and Cox BRIGHTON DESPITE ITS curtain raiser status, J. M. Morton's Victorian farce, Box and Cox has remained oddly per sistent on the theatrical scene. A$ presented by Brighton Actors' Workshop, in their Sea House studio theatre at lunchtimes. it is possible to see why. Its Gilbert-style humour remains genuinely funny and very responsive to careful presentation. The comedy depends on ...

... Boeing, Boeing PERTH JET-LAG ONLY affects Boeing- Boeing, the farce by Marc Camoletti, adapted by Beverley Cross, in the sense of the plot. There is no sense of tiredness in its revival, in a production by Catherine Robins as the second play of Perth Theatre's summer season. I he plethora of doors, architectu rally improbable, but plotwise indis pensable, swing open and shut like boltholes ...

... The Incredible Vanishing CARLISLE THIS IS AN urgent police message--32 children have disappeared from street markets in Whitley Bay. bringing the total over the last three months to more than 250! Parents are warned to keep their youngsters indoors until police have solved the mystery. This ingenious tale of the spiriting away of children by Her Marshesty. monarch of the drains, forms the core ...

... Public Property YOUNG VIC ONE RATHER feels that Roger Newman is guilty of much of what he seems to be complaining about in his play Public Property an account of the career of Marilyn Monroe, produced by CG and Company at the Young Vic Studio. as tne well Known turn star suD- ject of the play was with us in com paratively recent times, her life must indeed seem like public property to 27 ...

... Barking to The Angel THREE HORSESHOES A CLEVER word play in the title is just about all there is on offer in Barking to the Angel by Carol Gould, presented by CG and Company at the Three Horseshoes, Hampstead. The title in fact, incorporates the names of two London Underground stations. Set in a flat in Knightsbridge Knightsbridge seems a curious choice for several reasons, most of them ...

... Springbok CARDIFF THOUGH professional sports are becoming more and more like showbiz entertainment, dramatists for the stage rarely choose sport as their subject matter. Undaunted, Michael Picardie set the whole of his new full-length play Springbok on a rugby field in South Africa. And the production by the Sherman Arena Company of Cardiff worked remarkably well. It was imaginatively co ...

... Good Morning Bill BOLTON P. G. WODEHOUSE was, and remains, one of the very few writers in the English language capable of making me laugh aloud while strap- hanging on the Northern Line. Bolton may be a far cry from Mar ket Blandings, but on a warm sum mer evening director Colin Bean and his Octagon Theatre cast soon had me totally convinced that not far away Blandings Castle would be nestling ...

... Side by Side by Sondheim CHESTER A SURPRISE PACKAGE from the Gateway Theatre, Chester, delighted a packed audience and provided a slick cavalcade of songs, comedy and general merriment. The end product of director Chris Honer's hard labour was certainly i more a show than a play but the real key to the astonishing success of this extravaganza lies in workman like presentation and in the ...