... BUBBLE THEATRE BUBBLE'S show for the under-seven age group has been devised by the company, under Adrian Harris' direction, from a story by Mary Barten. Stan Bolovan and the Stupid Dragon has some catchy songs by Ian Milne and a quest story, all about a farmer who tries to magic up the children his wife wants, which is exciting without being frighten ing. This effect is greatly helped by Liz ...

... ON MAY 6 this year, day of the county council election results and a strike by provincial newspaper journalists, the Crucible Studio theatre in Sheffield sent some 600 people (a number of schools were co-operating) out into the city to record a day in its life. From the scores of tapes, cassettes and pieces of written material which flooded in, Rony Robinson has cobbled together One Day in ...

... RADA THERE'S nothing exclusively six-teenth-century about a conflict between conscience and convenience, and RADA's production of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons shows that the play's basic conflict is as dramatically viable with twentieth-centurv traooinas as with those of the sixteenth. The adaptation to present-day sur roundings provided some rather jarring moments (Take a car ...

... FUNERAL GAMES is another hornfic romp through Joe Orion's extraordinary \Vorld. This viciously funny attack on the priesthood was given far too sensible a performance in Central School's studio produc tion. McCorquodale and Pringle are unsaintly characters of the church that require outrageous perfor mances by the very way they are written, in fact it is unavoidable. Ivan Steward and Francis ...

... MISS JULIE by Strindberg was given sensitive treatment Dy central School Students in their studio production. The conflict between class and sex was crystal clear in the hands of Roger McKern and Janet Ellis with first one and then the other dominating the play. As Jean, Roger McKern was both servant and master as required. Ordinary, then ambitious, and finally frightened of his situation, ...

... Schaubuhne am Halleschen Ufer THERE are just three days left to catch Summerfolk at the Lyttel-ton, a guest appearance by the Schaubtihne am Halleschen Ufer of West Berlin under their director Peter Stein, and a fine example of the standard achieved by this comparatively young company. Formed in 1962, they have since won a reputa tion in plays largely neglected by other West German ...

... TO MANY people Wolverton will be an uninteresting little town through which fast Inter-City trains flash on their way to Birmingham. Now it is one of the older-established communities which are being linked together with a wealth of new development to form the brave new city of Milton Keynes. But Wolverton, with its few streets in a grid pattern, is a fasci nating example of industrial ...

... IT IS debatable whether or not llluminatus by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, adapted for stage by Ken Campbell and Chris Langham. presented by the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool at the Cottesloe, is truly in the science fiction genre. Its style might be described as Stoppard fertilised by Vonnegut Though Prunella Gee as Mavis, the fair cicerone of the bewildered recruit to one ...

... This week's hopefuls ATV's New Faces on Saturday is directed by Hector Stewart and will present another seven acts to a panel of judges which, this week, includes Tony Hatch. The artists appearing are: Cathal Dunne, singer/pianist Cherry Roland, singer Libra Brothers, singing trio Dry Ice. 4-piece group Oliver Spencer, comedian/ impressionist The Champions, 6-piece group Frank Lee, comedian In ...

... Anna has beauty but lacks the chill by Brendan Hennessy SO far the shivers are missing, the eerie premonition that Tolstoy's great love story is doomed to a tragic ending from the start. The omens are there all right, but not the ominousness. Perhaps in the first two episodes of Anna Karenina (BBC -2, Sundays, 8.10 p.m.) there was too much beauty in the brilliantly re-created Russia of 100 ...

... Stoppard's wit won the day TELEVISION TODAY Reviews by Martyn Wade A NEW series of Play of the Week was given a most auspicious send-off by Tom Stoppard with his first full-length drama for television. Professional Foul (BBC-2. Wednesday September 21, 9.0 pm). In this story of a visit to Prague by Anderson, a Cambridge professor of ethics, and his entanglement with the issues of human rights. ...

... Every Good Boy Deserves Favour ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL THE John Player 10-day Centenary Festival was launched 'on July I at the Royal Festival Hall with Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, a new play by Tom Stoppard in which the entire London Symphony Orchestra is used as an integral part of the action. As 1977 is Prisoner of Conscience Year, Stoppard has written on this theme, utilising this ...