... The Bush 'I'm Not Walking' RAY HASSETT, of Sal's Meat Mar ket. had a new one-man show at the Bush. I'm Not Walking is almost a blueprint for what makes a modern man either a creator or a destroyer it traces a stilted small-town childhood in America in a wry fashion that is yet perfectly valid both as psychology and as theatre. God knows, that's a rare enough event in itself to be worth ...

... Woolwich 'Bring Back the Cat' DOWN AT THE Tramshed in Woolwich, quite a lot of stirring, including trouble if Greenwich Theatre, whose baby this relaxed and attractive entertainment place is, does not do something to stop the noise from the bar and foyer overpowering the best efforts of the company in the auditorium proper. It is surely not asking too much to request that patrons who have ...

... Films at the Phoenix If you have a minute to spare during the coming weeks remember to take in with or without children alongside some of those beautiful Russian children's films down at the Phoenix Theatre. There's no room to reproduce the lovely pictures I was sent, but with no fear of contradica- tion the films can be described as without equal. At least compared with western counterparts ...

... Hull 'Captain Starlight' HULL'S Theatre-in-Education team, based at the Humberside, goes from strength to strength. Its reputation with schools and teachers is now such that a show like Captain Starlight and the Amazing Airship Adventure becomes a virtual sell-out as soon as booking opens. This production, which the team has been presenting daily at Hull's Library Theatre, is an imaginative ...

... 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS' AT THE YVONNE ARNAUD JOHN FRAYN TURNER REVIEWS GREAT EXPECTATIONS partly fulfilled. This sums up the musical adaptation from Charles Dickens by Hal Shaper and Trevor Preston with Shaper's lyrics to music by Cyril Ornadel, given its premiere at the ford Yvonne Arnaud. The only reservation is really to question the basic idea of the classic novel as a suitable subject for ...

... Liverpool 'Hooley's Hope Street Wake' THE LAST SLAT has been ripped from the auditorium, the autumn programme is over and this month the bulldozers move in to the Liverpool Everyman and the company prepares for its year on the road during the rebuilding. Hooley's Hope Street Wake is a bration to mark the end of the old Everyman, home of the company for all of its eleven years, and the ...

... Manchester 'Much Ado About Nothing' THE IDEA of a Shakespearean production in a cathedral may raise one or two eyebrows, perhaps, but in the event the Royal Exchange Theatre Company's production of Much Ado about Nothing in Manchester Cathedral proved completely acceptable. Indeed for two of its scenes no more appropriate setting could have been found the wedding, and the brief scene in ...

... Oxford Feydeau Bill WITH its double-bill of two Feydeau farces, Fitting For Ladies and For Heaven's Sake Don't Walk Around With Nothing On, the present Oxford Playhouse Company has achieved perhaps its outstanding success to date. Farce must not be guyed burlesque being a totally different medium of comic expression if it to make its most effective impact. Gordon McDougall, the Playhouse ...

... Aldwych 'Henry the Fourth' Opened January 29 THE TWO PARTS of the Terry Hands production of Henry the Fourth, seen last year at Stratford-upon-Avon. have joined the Royal Shakespeare Company repertory at the Aldwych, along with Henry the Fifth. The occasion is an event of the year. The staging is austere as far as settings are cerned. but highly charged with atmosphere, changing from ...

... Whitehall 'Come Into My Bed' OPINIONS might vary as to the exact audience for which Paul Raymond's new production Come Into My Bed at the Whitehall is designed. One thing is for sure --it certainly isn't for the lover of great drama and superlative acting. Come Into My Bed, written by one Andre Launay who must exist, mustn't he, because there is a picture and biography of him in the pro ...

... R.B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS 'THE GINGER MAN' AT THE SHAW Opened January 26 FIRST seen in the West End at the Fortune in 1959, and widely acclaimed, J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man is now at the Shaw, as fresh, effective and compelling as ever. Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, a dramatic character of our time, seems even more potent than before in his hatreds, longings, tirades, and emotional and ...

... Scarborough 'Just Between Ourselves' WHEN Alan Ayckbourn's latest play, Just Between Ourselves, was given its premiere at the Library. Scarborough, on January 28. the audience was highly delighted with it. although some were heard to say that it is like a number of the playwright's earlier efforts. That may be true but it does not detract from the enjoyment one gets, for in this play Mr ...