... DUNDEE DUNDEE Repertory Theatre gave the world premiere of , by London-based author John Haggarty. Powerfully written as a violent drama set in Cyprus during the EOKA campaign for self-determination, the play was vividly directed by Robert Robertson and presented with intense realism. As a native Glaswegian. Mr Haegarty knows his rough, tough Jocks and their basic outlook and attitude. ...

... 'Seagull Rising' THE author of Seagull Rising says of the play's Chekhov predecessor: It never quite yields to me its mystery I feel thwarted. And I was disappointed to find this an equally apt description of the modern version by A. E. Ellis. To begin with. I must beg to differ with the description of Chekhov's The Seagull. I have found the play oppressive, disconcerting, even ...

... ROH Redevelopment. ON March 16 the Covent Garden Committee of the GLC approved the Royal Opera House's application for planning permission for Phases 1 (a) and (b). covering its westward extension across Mart Street to James Street to provide improved facilities backstage, including new dressing rooms and rehearsal areas. In addition, planning permission was given for internal alterations to ...

... GUILDFORD DESPITE a. few flashes of epigrammatic glitter, Sheridan today can be a bit of a bore-- especially when attenuated to a marathon three hours. This is the running time of at the Yvonne Arnaud, a splendidly stylish double disaster. It is an adaptation by Lionel Harris of a 202-year-old comic opera now set to a rather insip, immature Julian Slade score from his pre-Salad Days. So ...

... Design For Living' NOEL COWARD'S Gilda in Design for Living is no ordinary woman, it's true. But whether or not she's as consistently extraordinary as in Michael Meacham's recent production for RADA is another matter. Lisa Eichhorn's Gilda was remarkably unreal, speaking throughout at an astonishing rate of knots, in strained, often plummy tones which came to life only to occasional ...

... The Western Kirkby Cowboy' THE Everyman Company, at present on tour, deserves a medal for sustaining the itinerary alone which includes Liverpool, Chester and Lancaster, as well as ten Merseyside venues in just under three weeks. So when it also produces a rumbustious cowbov sinealong on a practically bare Students' Union refectory floor hallmarked with expected Every man excellence, ...

... Early Shakespeare and the Late Marlowe' EARLY Shakespeare and the Late Marlowe is a swift and imaginative piece of drama which appeals to its audience in a very direct way. Author Michael Moriarty. a Questors member for some six years, displays an acute sense of humour in this, his first play. The young and naive William Shakespeare is married to Ann Hathaway but enjoys a handy fling with ...

... Prisoners HOUNSLOW THOSE things always with us, to quote an antique phrase, include political voilence. Depending on the time, the circumstances and the propaganda abilities of the survivors, this comes over as martyrdom, genocide, wastage, a political necessity, heroism or terrorism or, in a mixed-up age, a cacophony or an six and a number of tones in between This is^uch an age. A play ...

... Anne Morley-Priestman reviews TWO YEARS after its television screening, the stage version of One Friday by Edmund Banyard arrived at the Westminster Theatre on March 29, in a production by John Dryden presented by Aldersgate Productions with the churches of Greater London. There is a framework story, of a man in prison for his beliefs somewhere in the world where faith in anything but the ...

... CAMBRIDGE THEATRE COMPANY DOG'S DINNER, a new play by Robert Williams, at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, by the Cambridge Theatre Company, is brilliantly directed by Jonathan Lynn, following his successes with Present Laughter and The Glass Menagerie. It began, auspiciously, with a spontaneous burst of applause at curtain-up for the setting by Patrick Robertson, portraying a derelict house ...

... BASINGSTOKE ROY BOULTING explained that the reason why the premiere of his first stage play, , about a theatrical family by the name of Lennard, was put on at Basingstoke's Haymarket Theatre was that he wanted to see it produced at a theatre far enough from London to assess audience reaction before it went on tour. The fact that a crooked parallel can very easily be drawn between the ...

... The Iron Man' AN ALLIANCE of teachers in east London schools, all concerned with English or drama or both, have come together to form the Monega Arts Centre, a touring company playing to both school and adult audiences and concentrating on set books and new work. The Iron Man has been written by George Melia and Mike Way with music by Ken Bolam and Graham Dring from the life of William ...