... 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 ...

... ROBERT MORLEY IN 'GHOST ON TIPTOE' R.B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS OF COURSE, the part fits him like a glove. He helped to tailor it. Of course, he is at the centre of the play all the time. He helped to make it. As the leading character he is irascible, lovable, greedy, perversely generous, a father scorned by an unworthy son. Thus, once again, we have Robert Morley in a domestic comedy. It is A ...

... Hampstead A NtW venture in nampsieau called the Three Horse Shoes Company is launching lunch- time pub theatre, starting with Go On Jump by Brian Com port on May 6. Cast comprises David Bailie and Michael Graham Cox and performances will take place at 1.15 at the Three Horse Shoes pub in Heath Street, Hampstead. The following week sees Kissed with a Loving Seal by Eric Paice with John Dunn ...

... LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET LAST week's dance events produced nothing to equal Barry Moreland's Prodigal Son for originality. London Festival Ballet's production, first seen at the Coliseum on May 7, does full justice to a work which shows this young cnoreograpner in a new vein oi theatrical, almost showbiz, effectiveness. Set to Grant Hossack's orchestration of some Scott Joplin numbers, and ...

... BACH FESTIVAL FROM THE France of le grand siicle, this year's English Bach Festival moved on April 29 and 30 to fin du siecle Spain. An evening of dance, both classic and flamenco, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall was preceeded by one of zarzuela at the Royal Festival Hall. This anthology programme demonstrated one pos sible reason why this charming variety of musical theatre is seldon presented ...

... Edited by SIDNEY VAUNCEZ Caroline Muller, formerly with the EMI Records Press Office and later with Tony Hall's Fresh Air label, has now joined Sydney Rose as personal assistant in his new management company Sydney Rose Associates Limited. J* Keith Whitall, the Richmond agent, His extending his activities to include Jcabaret and light entertainment. Keith Whitall Management Limited 1 already ...

... 'THE GREAT SOCIETY' AT THE MERMAID R.B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS IN The Great Society, at the Mermaid, Beverley Cross has the Peasants' revolt of 1381 as his subject, mutiny as his theme, and Richard the Second and Wat Tyler as his principal characters. The Great Society is a pageant rather than a play in which we see the King dur ing his last two hours on this earth, imprisoned in Pontefract ...

... GREENWICH 'THE LIVING ROOM' SPECTACULAR though it is, I suspect that Alan Ayckbourn's stunning adroitness in keeping so many dramatic plates simultaneously aloft in his three plays at Greenwich Theatre, and spinning so very gracefully to boot--is very nearly a side issue. Because even though he's dazzlingly clever and startlingly original, his con summate talent is his kindly, sympathetic, ...

... BILLINGHAM 'A MAN AND HIS WIFF' THOUGH Guy Bolton's play, A Man and his Wife deals with Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill during 56 years of their married life, it is not particularly good theatre, possibly because it deals mostly with the domestic side of their lives set against a background of the many events in which 'churchill was involved. One might have expected that just ...

... NEW END 'KILL THE KIDS' HERALDED by a war of conflicting statements by playwright and director. Herb Greer's Kill the Kids at the Theatre at New End from May 15 turns out to have been falailing its targets with a flounder. It is a satire, certainly, on the consumer society, but its 80 minutes don't add up to' very much of an eye-opener. Moments certainly bite home, but the lasting effect ...

... '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 ...

... HAMPSTEAD 'BODYWORK' BODYWORK by Jennifer Phillips, first seen at the Leicester Phoenix in 1972, has turned up at Hampstead Theatre Club. The production is worthwhile only for performances by Polly Adams and Joanna Dunham. Bodywork is a vapid play about two les bians: Milly, vulnerable and cringing, Sarah, domineering and sadistic. The play begins with them on holiday in the ...