... The Tempest BALLET RAMBERT IT WAS A foregone conclusion that Ballet Rambert's The Tempest, which received its British premiere at Sadler's Wells last week, would be an enormous success, for with Glen Tetley as choreographer, Arne Nordneim as composer, Nadine Baylis as designer and John B. Read in charge of lighting, it was safe to assume that all the creative elements would be blended ...

... London City Ballet ARTS THEATRE LONDON CITY Ballet Company mainly presents regional short seasons and Sunday evening gala programmes. Its director, Harold King, has moved into another sphere with the week of performances for children as part of Unicorn's summer guests season at the Arts Theatre. At the opening performance, the lack of a narrator and the awkwardness of the stage (both its ...

... MARTHA GRAHAM confessed that she was taking a risk in offering a work about Mary Queen of Scots to the British public, but she need not have worried for Episodes (a revival from the 1959 production) is a model of elegant and decorous taste which tells the saga of Mary's tragic life through a series of sym bolic episodes. It is a sombre piece to music by Webem with a rich array of mainly ...

... Martha Graham Dance Company COVENT GARDEN FLUID STRENGTH, tempered with discipline and economy of style are the hallmarks of the Martha Graham Dance Company, and these, together with rich music and designs. and brilliant lighting, are to be found in abundance during the company's season at the Royal Opera House. Choreography is by Graham herself, and at the Gala opening last week the Grand ...

... Dancework BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE THE PROGRAMME which Dance-work presented recently at Battersea Arts Centre provided five works in a short but quietly enjoyable evening. The five dancers rely on no gimmicks to make their mark, but they present themselves as an honest, inventive and hard-working team. Stuart Hopps' The Check Up was decidedly droll. Christine Juffs played a tense, bustling and ...

... La Sylphide LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET PETER SCHAUFUSS' newly-worked revival of La Sylphide for London Festival Ballet is a rare delight. He has endeavoured to rediscover as much as possible of the 1836 production by his Danish compatriot, August Bournonville, and he has captured the essence of this moving romantic ballet through poetry and magic. David Walker's designs and John B. Read's ...

... The Absolute Monarch LAMDA FINALS students on the B.A. (hons) degree course in Theatre Design at the Wimbledon School of Art under Malcolm Pride combined with second-year students of LAMDA in a compilation based on the life of Queen Elizabeth I devised and directed by LAMDA's Roger Croucher. Unlike most such exer cises, this one has a life of its own, for it will go on tour this autumn to ...

... Best-ever booking DICK CONDON'S pantomime Cinderella and the Magic Slipper for the Norwich Theatre Royal, already boasts bookings more than 100 per cent in excess of those placed up to this time last year. Costing £155,000, it will star Paul Henry of Crossroads fame, as Buttons, and director Yvonne Marsh as Prince Charming. Australian ballet dancer, Petal Miller, who brought Stars of the ...

... Marti's show for charity MARTI CAINE is planning a special cabaret for charity when she appears in Birmingham this month She will top the bill at the Night Out on November 13 when West Midlands newagents are organ ising a charity evening to boost the fund set up in the name of murdered Staffordshire newsboy Carl Bridge- water. The fund, organised by the Natio nal Federation of Retail ...

... Next Publand show to be the last THE CHANGING face of pub entertainment is to force the Publand Show--an annual feature since 1966--out of business, writes Moira Petty. The next show in 1980 will be the last, although Ray Donn sole producer of the shows since their inception plans to stage an alternative entertainment. He explained to THE STAGE the reasons for the decision. The acts I require ...

... Silhouette nightclub plans major cabaret SOUTHAMPTON'S Silhouette nightclub has announced plans for extensive cabaret in the coming months, including a return by sixties pop star Billy J. Kramer and a week of Who Do You Do star Luie Caballero, reports Nick Ralls. From November II, Silhouette owner Brian Adamson is planning weeks of cabaret featuring what he describes as good middle-of-the- ...

... Minstrels return to seaside Futurist THE BLACK and White Minst rels are returning to Scarbo rough's Futurist Theatre next summer with a special 20th an niversary production. It will be the eighth year since I960 that the famous Minstrel Show has played at the Futurist which Is owned by London theatrical impre sario Robert Luff, the man behind the Minstrel Show. Their IS-week season, which ...