... 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 ...

... Current Production IN TOWN THE NEW lunchtime production at the Soho Poly is Shakebag, by David Pinner, directed by Ian Lindsay and designed by Harry Duffin. In the cast are Jean Fergus son, Ronald Femee, Catherine Griller, Paul Hastings, Peter Pacey and Clare Richards. (Press: Verity Bargate, 636 9050.) DOMINI Theatre Company is presenting Success Story, writ ten and directed by Andrew ...

... Coliseum 'Le Coq d 'Or' OUR MAIN repository of works from the Diaghilev period is Festival Ballet who, with singular determination, periodically trot out a treasure for our delectation. Not always pure gold, mind you, but there's no mistaking the value of the latest offering, Le Coq d'Or (Coliseum May 6). The original element of political- satire is no longer of interest to us, but the ...

... 'IRENE' AT THE ADELPHI Lisa Gordon Smith reviews HAROLD FIELDING'S presentation of Irene at the Adelphi on June 15 does not so much attempt to bring this 1919 musical up to date as to de-periodise it, which, unless the aim is to present it exactly in its original form, is certainly the best way of handling it, so far as the overall production and the visual effects are concerned, and in ...

... National Theatre 'Troilus and Cressida' THE NATIONAL THEATRE summer season at the Young Vic of plays originally intended for the Cottesloe opened inauspiciously on June 17 with a production by Elijah Mo-shinsky of Troilus and Cressida which in a sense seems almost wilfully obscure, despite the fact that the simple staging it is played in an earth-covered arena like a circus ring might be ...

... York Mystery Plays NOT since the York Triennial Festival started in 1951 have the Mystery Plays had such an impact as this time. This new production by Jane Howell is a stunner. Perhaps it was time to do something about the Plays. Perhaps they were too elderly and recherche, often a weariness. But now Miss Howell and her young production team have taken a header into the pop religion scene. ...

... Birmingham 'My Cousin Rachel' DEVOTED followers of Daphne du Maurier are unlikely to be disappointed by Gerald Frow's adaptation of the novel My Cousin Rachel, which had its premiere at the Birmingham Repertory. It follows the story step by step and incident by incident, keeping up the pace by the ingenious design or tne set. Kapia shifting of mobile sections creates 'new habitats, a ...

... 'DRACULA'S LAST DANCE' VARIATIONS upon the Dracula theme are, to put it plainly, legion. A new one, however, has been dreamed up by Andrew Dickson, associate editor of Penthouse whose Dracula's Last Dance was premiered by the Soho Poly as a lunchtime attraction on June 8. This propounds that the everlasting Count, driven out of East Europe by the collapse of the old feudal world and the ...

... 'SHIELD HEAD' THE DUNDALK Festival is mainly amateur, but on the last night this year the Towns Theatre opened its doors to a largely professional group from Iceland and London who got together to present what may well have been the first ever production of an Icelandic Play in English. This was Shield Head, a comedy by Jonas Arnason now enjoying suc cess in the original at the Reykjavik ...

... Sheffield 'Nijinsky' NUINSKY danced like a god for tragically few vears before he decided he was God and took other fatal steps into the abyss of schizophrenia. It is on these years that Rex Doyle, who also directs, concentrates in his new play given its premiere at the Crucible Studio snetneia. Recognising that most of his audience will know that the great Russian went mad but probably ...

... 'HEADLOCK' BASED on the delightful conversion of a disused town hall into a much-used arts centre at Battersea is a new experimental theatre company, Salt Theatre. Their initial production between March 18 and 21 was a play devised by one of the group's two founders, Cindy Oswin. At its outset, I thought that Head- lock was yet another piece of genuinely popular theatre, for the set is a ...

... 'A CHORUS LINE' AT DRURY LANE R.B. Marriott reviews Ooened July 22 THE LIVES of boys and girls of the chorus have often been shown in film musicals (and occasionally on the stage), but never before as in A Chorus Line, the Michael Bennett musical at Drury Lane. Mr Bennett's people of the chorus are men and women with lives away from the theatre. We see them auditioning for a new show, an ...