... The Amazons ACTORS COMPANY SOME time last year, the Canonbury Tower Theatre Company unearthed a rarely revived Pinero--The Amazons,last seen in London before that in 1927. The Actors' Company has had a considerable success with its production of the same play on tour and it reached London, or at any rate the Wimble don Theatre, last week. Pinero's own description was a romantic farce, ...

... 'STEVIE' AT THE VAUDEVILLE Susan Corbett reviews Opened March 23 I'M LOW on energy, says Glenda Jackson's Stevie in Hugh White-more's dramatic portrait of Stevie Smith, the poet. Funny: till then it had seemed that energy was the lady's middle name. Perhaps she means that she reserves her energy for the important things in life: her relationship with her beloved sur- burban aunt, and her ...

... In the Red WHITEHALL Opened March 25 DADDY (playwright David Clifton) is in the red. To the tune of a measly £11.000. For some reason or other, his ungentlemanly bank manager Charles Bentworth takes it into his head to stop cashing Daddy's cheques: did you ever hear anything like it? So what will poor Daddy do then, poor thing? Write a new play? Get a decent job? Cut down on his gambling? ...

... Vampire BUSH SNOO WILSON'S Vampire at thf Bush Theatre has a third act completely rewritten from the original of some ten years ago. In fact, it is less a case of three acts than of three short plays with a tenuous thread of family woven with one of theme to hold the web together--the bloodsucker of me uue is less a maucr ui ui ...

... Gimme Shelter GIMME SHELTER, Barrie Keeffe's trilogy of short plays first seen at the Soho Poly in early February, has now transferred to the Royal Court, where the most powerful impact is still made by the middle play, Gotcha. This pene trating study of a 16-year-old school-leaver, suffering the frustra tions and anonymity of existence at a comprehensive school, gives a splendid chance to ...

... Fire Angel HER MAJESTY'S Opened March 24 FIRE ANGEL. said to have cost a quarter of a million pounds, is now in full flame at Her Majesty's and will probably keep burning away as long as there are audiences for rock opera. But was all this expenditure worthwhile? The set and costumes are gaudy, the show gives employ ment to around thirty actors and almost twenty musicians divided into three ...

... Haymarket Theatre: some new faces LOUIS MICHAELS has completed arrangements with the Board of the Frederick Harrison Trust Ltd for a new company in his ownership, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket Ltd, to take over the management of the Haymarket Theatre for a number of years. The directors of the Frederick Harrison Trust will join Michaels and his colleagues on the board of the new company and Mrs ...

... The Street BELFAST JOHN BOYD'S The Street which is having its premiere at the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast is his fifth stage play and part of the cycle which began with The Assassin. The street is in the seedy Bally- macarett area of the city where Bob Downie and his wife Jane live in a house at the corner, facing a pub into which three unemployed youths come and go. Bob is a railway ...

... Julius Caesar OLIVIER Opened March 22 THEY'RE a dispirited bunch of conspirators in John Schlesinger's production of Julius Caesar at the Olivier, hardly one of them with the spunk to match his words. And, equally unusual for this play, it is Julius Caesar one remembers above all the others, principally because he is played in superbly confident style by John Gielgud, whereas most of the ...