... do for whole settings. This proved most effective in the letter-scene when the white cyclorama, lit with pastel shades as night fell and then bright ened as dawn came, provided a fitting background to Tatiana's three-piece bedroom consisting of a bed ...

... A Midsummer Night's Dream REGENT'S PARK YET AGAIN, the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park has opened its season with an enchanting production of, one need hardly say, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Of course, the play might have been written for this grassy ...

... Night and Day YVONNE ARNAUD NIGHT AND DAY at the Yvonne Arnaud turns out to be more about British journalism than African politics, but Tom Stoppard also contrives to complement these with a dash of the obverse--British politics and African journalism ...

... of buoyancy to die live-for-today char acter whose philosophy is embodied in the much quoted Jamaican maxim: two fish in de sky better'n one bird in der sea. The Jamaican has a razor-sharp wit and a cheeky answer forever ready on his hps. But, despite ...

... down with Contract's mostly young audiences more at home with Star- sky and Hutch than with Rumania. Would they not find it all rather wishy-washy and old hat? Not a bit. On first night evidence, they lap it all up and give noisy vent to their feelings ...

... midnight in a country abode ten miles from Ipswich. Simon arid Colin are friends who have each picked up a companion for the night. Enter Derek, an old acquaintance of Colin, who seems content to bed down on the floor alone in his sleeping bag. It is no ...

... in our time can be about. On this opening night Tom Jobe's Run Like Tnunder offered fast mov ing body-popping and robotics, jerked hips and swung legs, but it was all so trivial. Robert Cohan's new work Sky lark was a disappointment. It has the arty ...

... water captured in the light of wood fires, the soft whistle of imaginary arrows, the velvet intimacy of a clear Provencal night sky covering a venue fit for the gods. This is the unfolding of a story that strips to the nub the stuff of life: birth, death ...

... Darke night of the soul The gloves are off as Charles Spencer reviews a soggy satire BUSH The Oven Glove Murders IT IS unfortunate that the Bush should be premiering Nick Darke play which concerns a British film's triumph in America at a time when Goldcresl ...

... three new revitalised works at the Wells SADLER'S WELLS London Contemporary Dance Theatre THERE WAS a time when the first night of London Contemporary Dance Theatre's annual season at Sadler's Wells ensured full houses, but at last week's opening programme ...

... HALF MOON Flash Trash WHAT A WELCOME change this Caribbean pantomime offers us on a wet wintry night. The rhythm of reggae, the glow of the Jamaican night sky and the warmth of a pint from the new bar at this East End venue, all contribute to a successful ...

... Hard-boiled sweetie with a soft centre GLOBE Light Up The Sky THIS smart revival of Moss Hart's 1948 New York comedy, directed with precision by Elijah Moshinsky, is a white telephone play--actually two on the set, which is all ivory and gold, a suite ...