... The Travelling Music Show HIS MAJESTY'S Opened March 28 WHY, we asked ourselves as we left Her Majesty's. The Travelling Music Show? Why not The Bruce Forsyth Show? Or maybe Bruce Forsyth and Friends? Or perhaps Bruce Forsyth and Friends Sing the Rest of Bricusse and It is described as a sort of songbook. though preliminary publicity led us to believe that it was a kind of musical ...

... 'A DAY FOREVER' AT THE OPEN SPACE Anne Morley-Priestman reviews Opened January 31 I'M ALL for realism in drama, but you can take it too far in the theatre, in the case of Michael Sharp's A Day Forever, the author appears to have tugged one way, the director (Madhav Sharma) in another and the designer (Jane Smith) in a third. It adds up to tedium with more longeurs than the most tentative ...

... Sticks and Bones NEW END SHIPPED home blind from the Vietnamese war, former US soldier David presents his family with a substantial problem. He no longer begins to fit into their run-of-the- mill. suburban way of life-- a fact which he loses no time in demonstrating in no uncertain anti-social terms. Kitchen-oriented mother Harriet is ill equipped to cope: junk food is her answer to every ...

... Double bill KINGSTON KINGSTON OVERGROUND had Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy working well on the opening night last week but the curtain raiser in the double bill, White Liars, was too matter of fact and lacked in expression. No doubt it will warm up. The timing of David McAlister and Lisa Evans as Brindsley and Carol Melkett was superb during the long 'dark' spell and. in the 'light' period ...

... OUR THEATRE IN THE NINETIES SECOND year stage students at Glasgow's School of Drama recently presented, at the Athenaeum Theatre a bill of excerpts from Pinero, St John Hankin, Wilde and Shaw, under the title Our Theatre in the Nineties. In Act 1 of Wilde s An Ideal Husband Patricia Ross showed an attractive stage presence and considerable vocal resource as the scheming Mrs Cheveley. Sandy ...

... Publicity conference ANOTHER in the series of publicity conferences organised by the Coun cil of Regional Theatres is to be held at the National Theatre on February 23. It will deal with design and print techniques and will include a tour of Battley Brothers (Printers) Ltd in Clapham. ...

... Period of Adjustment KING'S HEAD Opened April 27 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS is not everyone's idea of a load of laughs, but his plays are not without humour and at least one, Period of Adjustment. has moments of high' comedy, though. Williams being Williams, at root it is a psycho-sexual drama. This play, last seen in London at the beginning of the six ties. is well worth the revival Robert ...

... Playin' Porter CORK NOEL PEARSON'S latest presentation Playin' Porter is a musical entertainment based on the life and music of Cole Porter. Devised by Fergus Linehan and Jim Doherty. it links the story of the rich boy who made good with more than forty of the songs that Cole Porter wrote, all the way from a Yale college ditty to Kiss Me Kate. Tonv Kenny, Rosaleen Linehan. Emma Angeline ...

... Twelfth Night OLD VIC Opened April 24 AS YOU TAKE your seat at the Old Vic for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. the back wall of the bare stage, painted green and embellished with titles of Prospect productions, is the only bit of decoration to be seen through the pros arch. And then just before the performance is due to start, actors wander on to the stage waving to friends in the audience, ...

... A Cool Million OPEN SPACE YOU can't generalise safely about anything in the theatre and especially you can't generalise about second thoughts being--or not being--best. In particular when I have a shrewd feeling that Robert Walker's A Cool Million (by courtesy of Nathanael West's original and Andy Smith's catchily vamping score) is a third thought at the very least. The author's revised ...

... DEAD GENERATIONS MAYDAY'S researches into some of south-west London's less savoury political and financial past are obviously pretty thorough--its latest touring show for older schoolchildren, youth clubs and adult audiences in its preferred non- theatre venues comes apparently in several editions and is historical both in subject and in presentation. Dead Generations is about Batter- ...

... THE GREAT JAM TART ROBBERY WHAT seems likely to be one of John A. Cooper's last children's plays as artistic director of the Woolwich Tramshed shows just what can be done on a minute production budget, a bare fortnight to write and stage the whole thing and only three players, plus a pianist. The Great Jam Tart Robbery is for kids between 3 and 7 and is a neat blending of several nursery ...