... Between the wars THE AMATEUR Swan Theatre Company presented the premiere of Happy Days Are Here Again, described as a look at the years between the wars, in fact and throueh the eyes of entertainment. It was devised, written and directed by Brian J. Burton, Chair man of the Company's Committee, with additional material by four others. A tremendous amount of research obviously went into the ...

... Impressive 'Time and the Conways' IN THEIR temporary theatre within Manchester Royal Exchange, the Sixty-Nine Theatre Company presented a revival of J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways, which, though in one sense very much an actor's play, still gives pause for thought by the beholder. And as the author himself remarks in a programme note, It is indeed topical up-to- the-minute while ...

... Story of Columba COLUMBA, one of the first evangelists to set about the conversion of Scotland in the sixth century, is the subject of C. P. Taylor's new musical play presented jointly by Scottish Theatre Ballet Movable Workshop and Scottish Television at the Traverse, Edinburgh. The saint who emerges from Columba, a most imaginative production, is far removed, though not necessarily opposed ...

... 'THE PARTY', OR POLITICS IN KENSINGTON by R. B. Marriott IN TREVOR GRIFFITHS' The Party, the latest production by the National Theatre at the Old Vic, a group of people discuss politics at a gathering in the very smart Kensington home of a man who works in television. There are orations and tirades; various shades of political thought are examined. The behaviour and action of parties over ...

... Festival Ballet ANY ATTEMPT to display the finished work of budding choreographers does a valuable service to the art of dance, for good ones are even rarer than good playwrights. London Festival Ballet are aware of this and staged another of their periodic Choreographic Even ings of new work at the Collegiate on December 20, with seven varied works danced mainly by members of the company. ...

... 'The Feast of Fools' THE FEAST OF FOOLS at the Round House is rather different from the usual Christmas holiday fare. But despite large helpings of cruelty and bawdy, it's as homely as mince pies or pantomime. Master Paddy Fletcher de la Zouche whisks us away with a joke on his lips and a leer in his eye to the cosy womb of medieval England. In the Baronial Hall of Poindexter Armbuster you ...