... 'The Rebel Kinsman' I have serious reservations that the Belgrade's TIE house production this year is suitable for its intended audience of seven to eleven year old children. The production is a new play by Ron Rose called The Rebel Kinsman and is set in the time of the English Civil Wars. It is a play characterised by a marked didactic intent to get over the Orwellian message that all ...

... 'The Overbury Scandal' THE OVERBURY case is one of the most fascinating of 17th century stories, a phantasmagoria of court intrigue, sexual passion, dubious medicine and downright sorcery. For City Lit students, George Pensotti has devised a play within a play--The Overbury Scandal is supposed to have been written by Francis Bacon for production by his own theatre company, the Lord Cham ...

... The Journalists COVENTRY ARNOLD WESKER'S The Journalists was given its world premiere in Coventry recently by one of the city's amateur theatre companies in its own Criterion Theatre. The play concerns the production of an issue of The Sunday Paper and is set amidst the structured disorder of a newspaper office. The issue appears to be in jeopardy because of the threat of industrial ...

... Living Quarters DUBLIN IN HIS new play Living Quarters, Brian Friel takes the well-worn premise that character is fate and tests it exhaustively. The characters in question are members of an army family living in a remote area of Donegal. They are introduced by Clive Geraghty, the mysterious Sir, who has their past and future recorded in a ledger ne carries with him. Under his direction ...

... The Last Missionary BRISTOL THE reverend gentleman in John Patrick Vincent's new play The Last Missionary, premiered by the Bristol Old Vic in its New Vic Studio, ends like many of his jungle precursors served up cannibal-style on a salver. But. sadly, he is the main dish at a meal that carries as little impact as the badly -written, over verbose play itself, despite the attempt to draw some ...

... Bank Siege SOHO POLY BEING taken hostage is a hazard of our times and a few writers have used such an event as the basis of a play. Gotcha, the central part of Barrie Keeffe's Gimme Shelter is a fine recent example, and now comes Bank Siege by John Petherbridge to further explore the psychological motives involved. The hostage in this play is Sally, an attractive bank clerk who is ...

... The Magic Drum LEICESTER PHOENIX THE FIRST children's show to come to the Lyttelton Theatre is also the occasion of the first visit by a regional theatre company the Phoenix from Leicester. The perfor mance between 29 March and April were of a new play by James Kirkup, The Magic Drum adapted and directed by Michael Bogdanov. It is a Chinese story and immensely visual in its presentation with ...

... Who Gets the Curtains? WORTHING IT IS never easy to assess box-office potential of a new play in which artists of the calibre of Derek Nimmo and Sylvia Sims have principal roles. Worthing Connaught Theatre's British premier production of Who Gets The Curtains? by Arne Sultan and Earl Barret is a not altogether unfamiliar domestic situation comedy brought up to date with vasectomy ...

... Son of Man ST. PAUL'S CHURCH DENNIS POTTER'S Son of Man shows up in church performance perhaps rather strangely, with its emphasis (as the title dictates) on Christ as a suffering human being rather than as the Second Person of the Trinity. London Contemporary Production's presentation at St Paul s Church, covent uarden nas been directed by Ian Lindsay within a context of contemporary ...

... Canterbury Tales WELSH DRAMA COMPANY BRASH, bawdy, boisterous and very, very funny that's the Welsh Drama Company production of the Phil Woods' free adaptation of Canterbury Tales. Directed with inventive flair by Ian Watt Smith for C.A.S.C.O. (the Welsh Drama Community and Schools Company) it is a real winner. Ironically it could turn out to be the last production of the W.D.C., ...

... 'STRAWBERRY FIELDS' AT THE COTTESLOE Opened April 5 LIKE. tne Beatles song from which it takes its title, Stephen Poliakoff's new play is about a dream, a dream of an England free from motorways (and, even more important, motorway service areas), redevelopment schemes and high-rise flats. But whereas the Beatles sang about the psychedelic sixties, Poliakoff is a young man of the sordid ...

... Ipi-Tombi CAMBRIDGE WHEN Ipi-Tombi opened at Her Majesty's in November 1975, few would have thought that it would still be going strong, now at another theatre, the Cambridge. 18 months later. Not because it is not a thoroughly enjoyable show, but simply because ethnic productions of this type are seldom considered in terms of long runs. Its main strength of course, is that it has great ...