... 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 ...

... MR DIRECTOR RICHMOND FRINGE, grousing about its minuscle grant from its wealthy parent borough with good reason, has commissioned a play from Fay Weldon for its final evening presentation of the 1977/78 season. Mr Director examines the case of a 14-year old girl at an approved school she has had a couple of abortions after the council took her into care and turned down her mother's ...

... TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME BARRY L. Hillman's Two Can Play At That Game, premiered by the Whitehills Players in Northampton recently, set out from an old and familiar starting place. Malcolm Rivers, trainee supervisor, has won the pools. And doesn't a man with £620,000 need a wife? Debra Renny arrives at his door with a proposal of marriage and two teenage children to bless their union in ...

... THE HURLER THE Gaelic Athletic Association, with its bigoted approach to Irish Nationalism, its violent interpretation of competitiveness in sport, its tacit approval of the militant aspect of Irish unity--all have contributed in no small way to the present troubles in the North of Ireland. that is the proposition put for ward by Cork journalist Val Dorgan in his first play, The Hurler, ...

... RAT SHIRK, having weathered a trial lunchtime season at the Pindar of Wakefield, is embarked on Seven Modern Sins. Now, you can think what you like about the medieval catalogue of such misdemeanours but at least you must admit that they came up colourful. Cardinal faults of our century come up grey. Clive Walker's Rat exemplifies Waste. Conspicuous waste used to be the charge but here it ...

... THEATRE OF COINCIDENCE PERFORMANCE art is a theatrical category which has earned itself a bad name If Theatre of Coincidence at Oval House is anything to go by, the blame is appropriate and necessary I don't remember when I last suffered anything as inept, trivial and totally amateurish (in the most pejorative sense of the word) as Incident One: A Crowded Time. This is the sort of nonsense ...

... Painter's Palace of Pleasure GLASGOW FOR its last production of the season until the end of April Glasgow Citizens' is presenting an unusual theatrical collage, the brain-child of director-designer Philip Prowse, that he has called Painter's Palace of Pleasure. William Painter's Palace of Pleasure (1566), a collection of Italian tales in English translation, furnished the Elizabethans ...

... THE MAGIC FROG ANGELA LANYON's new plav for young theatregoers may help solve two current problems pressing on low-budget regional theatres. How to use advantageously the daytime dark of highly-rated playhouses, and how to absorb the cost of the new minimum actors' fees aneously giving younger actors the experience to make them worth it! Westcliff presented The Magic Frog mornings and ...

... A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE THE WOOLWICH TRAMSHED manages--in a not over-endowed acting area--to provide both the sidewalk outside Eddie Carbone's apartment, lawyer Alfieri's office and the Carbone home for Margaret Prior's production of the year's set play. Miller's A View From the Bridge was given Doth matinee performances for schools audiences studying the play and evening pre sentation for the ...

... Steps, Notes and Squeaks ROYAL COURT THE FACT that Maina Gielgud's Steps, Notes and Squeaks can transfer so successfully from the Open Space (March 14-19) to the Royal Court (March 29-April 1)--given that neither theatre has an easy stage for classical ballet--is indicative of the versatile nature of this original show. Gielgud has assembled a strong team to present a typical working day ...

... New works LONDON CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE THREE new works were given by London Contemporary Dance Theatre at the Oxford Playhouse recently. Robert North's Scriabin Preludes and Studies, set to some of the composer's piano music (played by David Willison) and dressed in attractive summer wear by Peter Farmer, is a beautifully made ballet full of movement that is both taut and flowing. It ...

... Big Sin City WIMBLEDON PETER ELLIOTT'S tenure of the Wimbledon Theatre seems to have got itself off to a popular start with the Bill Kenwright production of a new rock musical. Big Sin City is a send-up, not just of its own genre but of most of the cliches of popular entertainment from the rise of the talkies onward. The direction of Bill Kenwright and Brian Peck, the choreographs- of ...