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... Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 'Just a Little Bit Less Than Normal' DO WE, any of us, know or even care what happens to those people bullied by life, whose unfortunate circumstances force them tempor arily into the public eye? In Just A Little Bit Less Than Normal, Nigel Baldwin rather inconclusively allows us into the grim life of Danny, victim of a pub bombing, loser of a leg, to see what ...
... 'Measure for Measure' BIRMINGHAM Repertory's production of Measure for Measure must register as one of. it not the. dramatic highlight of this year's Edinburgh Festival. Director Stuart Burge presents Shakespeare in the grand manner, making full use of the apron stage of the Assembly Hall to promote the sense of swiftly developing action. Robin Archer's design matches the swashbuckling mood ...
... 'FRINGE BENEFITS' AT THE WHITEHALL R. B. Marriott reviews Opened August 26 BRIAN RIX is back at the Whitehall, the theatre he made famous for farce, after an absence of ten years. No longer the boyish Mr Rix. he is the older Mr Rix, his technique even stronger, his personality more relaxed, his sense of the lous at its best. He is one of two errant husbands in Fringe Benefits by Peter ...
... Mayday 'Rock Candy' MAYDAY THEATRE have two rock musicals currently in their reper toire, thus making full use of a band. For children there is Rock Candy which lasts just over an hour and is a salutory lesson to those youngsters prepared to take note that all is not sweetness and light in the apparent ly glittering and glamorous world of popular music. The story tells how a group begins in ...
... Lambeth 'Strong-Arm Sammy' CHILDREN and the long summer holidays are not necessarily the smoothest of companions. A joint project between Lambeth Borough Council and the Young Vic have not only provided a catalyst to sparkle the mix, they have also created something well worth the effort and what money has been spent. Using a cast ot 30 between the ages of 12 and 16 from a round dozen of ...
... Curtain 'Muggins' 1 HE CUR TAIN TIE team include in each year's programming at least one show which is of direct interest to adults as well as to schoolchildren. This summer they have toured Muggins, a new one-hour play by Leigh Jackson about a boy who gets into trouble and why. It has been designed by Judy Wild, very effecti vely, and has a rock idiom score by Hugh Trethowan. The cast do ...
... ICA Hot Peaches Co. FROM NEW YORK there has come to Europe on tour a new theatre company with a purpose. Hot Peaches began its circuit at the ICA, as part of the summer festival; it is a homosexual company, both male and female, and the message could roughly be defined as gay power! There is less a story than a narration, and the numbers are poems and songs in roughly equal proportions. For ...
... 'Rogues and Vagabonds' IF the entertainment Rogues and Vagabonds about actors and acting being presented as part of the official Edinburgh Festival is in any way an advert for or a promise of what is to come in the new Royal Exchange Theatre. Manchester, then Mancunians are indeed blessed. This production is devised and presented by Michael Meyer in the St Cecilia's Hall in company with ...
... The Unknown Saint' BIPP is a new theatre group whict performs almost entirely in prisons Borstals and hospitals, but recentl) they gave one of their performance; to the general public. As an earl> evening show at the Little, the> presented David Wiles's variation or Brecht's The Good Woman ol Setzuan The Unknown Saint. Mr Wiles, who also directed the production, has reset it in modern ...
... Dublin grants THE PROJECT Arts Centre, in Dublin, which consists of a pocket theatre cum art gallery, has been granted £4,000 by Dublin Corpora tion despite objections by the League of Decency that some per formances there were vulgar to the point of being obscene. There had been a move to block the grant in a long red tape procedure, by referring it to various committees. Instead, however, ...
... 'Pal Joey' SELDOM can there have been such an undistinguished contribution to the official drama programme of an Edinburgh Festival than the production of Pal Joey presented by the Oxford Playhouse Company at the Royal Lyceum during the first week of the Festival. Admittedly the musical was a late substitution on the original .pro gramme. but even in this Bicenten nial year, this example of ...