... Nureyev's Faun A SPICK AND SPAN revival of Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto was the main item in the Royal Ballet's programme at Covent Garden on October 30, though Nureyev stole most of the attention with his dancing in two other works. He was seen first in Robbins' After noon of a Faun, in which his indolent style, with its strong echoes of Nijinsky's faun, created an illusion of ...

... Bronte ballet A BALLET by Ronald Hynd based on the life of the Brontes will be premiered by the Royal Ballet New Group in March next year at the Bradford Alhambra. Lynn Seymour will dance the role of Charlotte Bronte. The music has been specially commissioned from Douglas Young. Fellow in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the designer will be Peter Docherty. ...

... Markova presents Award THE MARKOVA AWARD, a silver salver presented annually to an outstanding student of the Arts Educational Schools, was won this year by Deirdre Allen, one of the eight girls who were adjudicated by Dame Alicia herself at the Golden Lane Theatre on June 26. This time there were no male students free to compete, as they had all taken up profes sional engagements imme ...

... Ballet at Horsham GALA BALLETS, under the artistic direction of Rovi Pavi- noff and Catherine Weeuelin. have enlarged their repertoire and this Friday and Saturday at t)ie Capitol, Horsham are in cluding Act II of Swan Lake, with Rovi Pavinoff as Prince Siegfried and Wendy Lewin as Odette. Mela Carter has choreographed a new bal let, Pied Piper with Clive Lewin in the title role, and Va ...

... Free Attractions OVAL HOUSE, Kennington, seems to be holding its own Festival of Theatre at the moment, and all the attractions are free. On Sunday evening, there were four separate shows going on; you could see three with ease, and, with a bit of juggling, catch most of four. There was a 20-minute dance situation called Frame and presented by two performers known as the Rescue Principle ...

... Celibate Lives ONLY technically an Irishman is how the programme notes for George Moore's Celibate Lives at the King's Head on September 13 describe its author. This is another one-man show, devised and acted by Allan McClelland and, if Moore s attitude to Ireland was anything but patriotic, his work was drenched in the miasma of delicate word-patterns one as sociates with that country. ...

... Well worth a rewrite IN The Red Red Robin, Glenn Chandler has written a play which, if it only had the courage of its own convictions, might very well have a longer life than that promised by its production at the Golden Lane by the amateur Limelight Players. Red Red Robin is about Christmas not the one on the greetings cards, nor even the one in medieval altar-pieces, but the one created ...

... Actors' Company are notable at the Shaw by Miles Litvinoff THE LIGHTS dimmed. Guardian readers to a man, we sat hushed in expectancy. Five silent actors confronted us, seated in a row on white pinewood seats. They began to emit strange sounds, reading from scripts. Good Heavens, I began to mutter, feverishly shuffling my programme, They don't know their lines! Can this be the final ...

... Be Prepared! RUDE JOKES about Girl Guides and being prepared probably date from the days of Baden-Powell himself. The Scout movement is, like the Church or the Monday Club, an obvious choice for satire. In Union Jack (and Bonzo), which reaches Hampstead Theatre Club by way of Edin burgh, Stanley Eveling makes the more obvious jokes with skill, and says few things besides. Despite the ...

... Cathedral multi-media REVELATIONS, the most mysterious book in the New Testament, has cried out for dramatic or film treatment and Adrian V. Benjamin's version, entitled Apocalypse, would seem to form a good basis from which to work. Described as a multi-media experience it is basically just that, part dramatised documentary, part oratorio, part ballet, part drama and all decked out with ...

... Brecht 'Mother' ANYONE UNCONVINCED of the genius of Bertolt Brecht should go and see The Mother, which opened at the Round House on July 2. Certainly not as sophisticated or as celebrated as his later plays, it's deliberately a very limited piece of Communist pro paganda. celebrating the ef forts of certain small-town Russian agitators in the period leading up to the 1917 revolu tion not, ...

... Jets and Sharks again THE REVIVAL of West Side Story, produced and directed by Bill Kenwright at the Collegiate on July 3, is a worthy effort in several ways. It is alive with enthusiasm; the dancing is very good indeed; the orchestra, under Ed Coleman, plays well. But the tragic story of the New York slums, where the natives, in the form of the Jets, and the interloping Sharks, battle ...