... Indian Festival THE THIRD Festival of Arts of India opened at the Queen Elizabeth Hall this week. It will also be seen in Manchester, Bristol. Bath. Cheltenham and Corby and at the Queen Eliza beth Hall again on July 14 and 15. The Festival features song, music, dance and drums from the North and South of India and features sixteen artists in solos and ensembles. They are Sitltleshwan Devi, ...

... Dolores Gray as Rose DOLORES GRAY, returning to the West End theatre for the first time since her success in Annie Get Your Gun. had a very warm reception when she opened at the Piccadilly as Rose, the ogress but pitiable mother in Gypsy, having taken the part from the great Angela Lansbury. It was a pity that enthusiasm could not con tinue to the end of the show, except in the sense of ...

... Manchester lunchtime MANCHESTER'S first lunch-time pub drama production has taken place in the wine bar of the Nag's Head, Jackson's Row. It was put on by the Manchester Drama Group, which has linked together a number of players in the city, and hopes, probably under a revised title, to stage regular productions, both at mid-day and in the early evening, in this and other pubs. The group have ...

... SWARTHMORE, LEEDS DAVID ROBERTSON is battling on at the Swarthmore Centre Studio in Woodhouse Square, Leeds, and has put on a very lively and delightful Christmas pantomime, Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves, It is a real traditional pantomime with a camel, a dame a clown (who really was a clown in his youth, touring with Bertram Mills) and a principal boy. The cast are mainly students at the ...

... Foretaste of 'Ring' THE FORTHCOMING two complete cycles of Wagner's Ring in Andrew Porter's translation constitute this year's major operatic achievement at the Coliseum, giving English-speaking audiences their first chance to fully understand the text of this great and complex work while it is being sung A foretaste, as it were, is now available on a couple of discs which Sadler's Wells ...

... Nigerian National Troupe AS PART of their two-month tour of Eastern and Western Europe, the Nigerian National Troupe are this week presenting a Fantasia of Dance and Music at the Round House. The programme is made up of song. instrumental playing and dance, ritual, courtly and pea sant of the Northern and South-Eastern States and of the Edo people. It ends with the Nigerian equivalent of ...

... BOTH as choreographer and dancer, Christopher Bruce is one of Ballet Rambert's greatest assets. Last week he was seen in both aspects of his talent, firstly as choieographer of Duets and later as dancer par excellence in Glen Tetley's Pierrot Lunaire. Duets. which opened on Sep tember 21, is an extraordinarily peaceful work, something along the lines of a latter-day Lilac Garden with ...

... Black Too Black THE TECHNIQUE of the black cabinet, of which Jiri Srnec and his Black Theatre of Prague are skilled exponents, holds few surprises now for London audiences and their la test two-week season at Sadler's Wells Theatre (Sep tember 3) was the dullest programme they have so far brought. Normally the greatest joy in watching this technique comes from the magic movement of the ...

... 'Cambusdonald' THE EDINBURGH PEOPLE'S Theatre, steadfast exponents of native Scottish comedy, present in this year's Edinburgh Festival fringe productions James Scotland's Cambusdonald Royal, directed by Marillyn Gray. Cambusdonald Koyal is a Scottish comedy which has style. The auld Scots speech marks its sturdy texture upon the ear, the main performances get invigorating caricature and the ...

... Drums in the Night' PLAYS FOR THE ordinary man like Drums in the Night are not often seen at the Edinburgh Traverse. Concerning plain folk with evident problems and common anxieties and holding some approach in common sense, such work needs only to be well written and well performed and it satisfies. Bertolt Brecht, adapted in Drums by C. P. Taylor, had this clear advantage. He evokes a ...

... Dreyfus THE premiere of the new play by Michael Almaz, Dreyfus on Devil's Island, turns out to be a monologue. Presented at the Pool Lunch Hour Theatre, Edinburgh, it is another essay into making the words flesh by presenting an account of a personality, and his circums tances, on stage. David Mouchtar-Samorai is the actor to make a perform- mance, this time, out of words which might as ...

... Sunshine matinee STARS mingled with prodigies at Drury Lane on Sunday, November 18 for the annual Sunshine Gala Matinee in the presence of Princess Margaret. Major talents of today, who. had all given their services free, shared the bill with top competitors from the All England Sunshine Dancing Competition, from various schools throughout the country. Each half of the show began with a ...