... Lado ROYAL ALBERT HALL .AS THE climax of a short British tour, the Yugoslav Folk Dance Company Lado performed at the Royal Albert Hall on May 17. This professional ensemble seems to have achieved the most difficult mastery in the complicated art of translating the exuberance and bright roughness of genuine folk art into something perfectly valid in theatrical terms but at no time artificially ...

... Two new works NORTHERN BALLET THEATRE TWO new ballets were given their first performance by Northern Ballet Theatre in the opera theatre of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester during the week of May 16. They were Last of Three by Geoffrey Cauley to the music of Britten's Strine Quartet No 1. and Area Without Measure choreo graphed by Royston Maldoom, with music by Anthony ...

... Onegin STUTTGART BALLET SEEING the Stuttgart Ballet's Onegin again, at the Coliseum on May 29. awakened feelings of regret that the Royal Ballet was prevented mounting this Cranko work because of fire hazards with the scenery. But even uancea against DiacK drapes, without JUrgen Rose's attractive sets, this ballet would still be preferable to several works already in the repertoire, for part ...

... Know Your Own Mind PITLOCHRY PITLOCHRY Festival Theatre has established a thoroughly deserved reputation for the re-discovery of old or neglected plays. One of the genre has moved into the current repertoire titled Know Your Own Mind which was written by Arthur Murphy in 1777. A contemporary of Sheridan and Goldsmith. Murphy doesn't offer the same excellence in writing or in character ...

... Coriolanus ALDWYCH Opened June 2 UNJUSTLY relegated into the second rank of Shakespeare's plays, presumably because it lacks the flowing poetry of the other tragedies, Coriolanus nevertheless makes mighty theatre in Terry Hands' production which has transferred from Stratford to the Aldwych. Its staging 13 Minpic, ai i an a iiugt. guuiv \-iiuv structures being positioned to do duty as ...

... TO DIE AMONG FRIENDS UNDOGMATIC, politically uncommitted new theatre companies do not precisely cluster in the realm of The Other Theatre. Witch formed itself fairly casually in February and showcased its first production at the end of April, although the first London area dates booked already stretch through June. Lunchtime presentations are also under con sideration. To Die Among Friends ...

... LILIAN HARMEL DANCE GROUP THE recent Music and Arts Week in Camden included three performances by the Lilian Harmel Dance Theatre Group at the Hampstead Theatre. Theatre comes into this studio's title advisedly, for even the youngest performers showed a nice sense of presentation, taking a macnine misnap in tneir striae. Wisely, and partly no doubt dictated by budgetary considerations, cos ...

... Runaways NEW YORK THE front pages tell the terrifying figures of between 750,000 to 1 mil lion teenagers who leave home each year in the United States. Elizabeth Swados' shattering ensemble musical Runaways gives the frightening details, the logical rea sons for anger, the sp^pific lives maimed. Begun almost a year ago as another in-house project of Joe Papp's N Y. Shakespeare Festival ...

... WEDDING FEVER THE HOMESPUN tale of a city family, Wedding Fever by Sam Cree is a wholesome, simple comedy. It uses standard domestic situations to provide easily recognisable amusement. At the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, it has been revived with the same leading actor. Jimmy Logan, after an interval of 12 years and it is just as funny. Despite the World Cup. this story of a rabid football ...

... THE SHORTSIGHTED BEAR THE group of four actors, obviously deeply committed to working together in close ensemble, who brought Faustus' Last Supper to Upstream from Coventry's Belgrade Studio recently have moved across the river to the Soho Poly for an exercise in modern matrimonial drama which is as much an allegory in its own way as the Marlowe variation. Four-handers about two couples ...

... THE BALL GAME' AT THE OPEN SPACE R. B. Marriott reviews THE SCENE of Tom Thomas1 The Ball Game, at the Open Space, is an apartment on the 20th floor of a Pittsburgh high rise just after the local baseball team has won the World Series, but the play has really nothing to do with baseball. The baseball win certainly has sent Barry into a state of euphoria, which draws his wife, Janis, and ...

... Plunder LYTTELTON Opened -May 31 NOW CELEBRATING its 50th anniversary, Ben Travers' meticulously- engineered farce Plunder has returned to the Lyttelton in Michael Blakemore's 1976 production, but with some changes of cast. Peggy Mount and John Standing have now taken over as the fearful Mrs Hewlett and the gentleman- thief Freddy Malone, both already thoroughly at home with the pro duction ...