... DURING FEBRUARY and March, the Royal Ballet will present the world premiere of a one-act ballet by Kenneth MacMillan; revivals of Mam'zelle Angot, The Four Sea sons and Voluntaries; and per formances of Elite Syncopations; Four Schumann Pieces, A Month in the Country, La Fille Mai Gar- dee and The Sleeping Beauty. McMillan's new work, entitled Gloria, will receive its first ...

... The Greeks at the Aldwvch R. B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS JOHN BARTON and Kenneth Cavander went to Euripides, Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles for material for The Greeks, the latest production by RSC at the Aldwych. The composite work consists of three plays, The War, The Murders, The Gods, which, seen all in one day, last for about eight hours. The production is in every respect a remarkable ...

... Trees In The Wind ROYAL COURT THE 7-84 Theatre Company paid a visit to the Royal Court with a short series of performances of John McGrath's Trees in the Wind, first produced in 1971. Aurelia, Belle, Carlyle and Joe weave in and out of a multiple set ting, talking, discussing, philo sophising. going to the left and the right, reading about socialism and Vietnam and various activities ab road ...

... Mixed Feelings CREWE IT WAS NOT only the swansong at Crewe of David Sumner when the Crewe Repertory Company presented Donald Churchill's new hilarious comedy Mixed Feelings at the Lyceum. It was a world premiere for this rumbustious rib-tickler and further proof of the capacity of this delight ful Edwardian theatre to survive in the face of every obstacle. It was, in the modern tradition, ...

... Arms And The Man CAMBRIDGE ITS ALWAYS a treat to see a classic play revived in the theatre with an assured defence for the styles of presentation and acting which belong to its own period. Such is Jonathan Lynn's produc tion for the Cambridge Theatre Company of Shaw's romantic com edy, a highly decorative, sparkling piece completely at one with the spirit of the play itself. Robin Archer's ...

... The King's Clown TOWER THEATRE THE TAVISTOCK Repertory Company at the Tower, Canonbury, were very enterprising in staging David Vando's play about Moltere, The King's Clown. It is quite an elaborate work in its development and ramifications, and the company, under the direction of Robert Pennant-Jones, did ex tremely well. Moftere is shown in anxious hours and in success, in his dealing with ...

... Royal Ballet School ROH AT THE 21st annual performance by the Royal Ballet School, which was given at the Royal Opera House, standards fluctuated. Generally speaking the girls looked stronger and more supple than in previous years; footwork from both girls and boys was neat and elevation good but they all needed to make their arm movements grander. There was some woolly partnering, and not ...

... Beiart Ballet COLISEUM IF YOU are accustomed to the delicate musical sensitivities of Ashton with Chopin's Variations Don Giovanni in A Month in the Country it is hard to be unbiased when another choreographer turns to the same music. Especially when it is Maurice Bejart and his Belgian let of the 20th Century (at the Col iseum) and the romantic lyricism of the music is ignored in ...

... Adam Darius MAYFAIR IT IS misleading to describe this programme, shortly to be seen on tour to Latin America, as the performers themselves do--this is not a case of mime artists so much as one of dance performers. There are many kinds of wordless theatre, from the ascetic to the self-indulgent, and there are arguably just as many audiences. I was worried, however, by the use of operatic ...

... Fille mal gardee ROYAL BALLET LA FILLE mal gardee never seems to be missing for long from the Royal Ballet's repertoire, but even so on its return to the Royal Opera House after an absence of what seemed like a very short year, it still managed to seem like a breath of bright sunshine. The truth is that this length ballet of Frederick Ashton's is so near-p>erfect in construction, and so ...

... Simone Forti WHITECHAPEL TO DANCE is to move but to move is not necessarily to dance, and the performance by Simone Forti at Whitechapel Art Gallery, given as part of the Dance Umbrella, dealt in raw and basic movement rather than dance. Likewise her companion. Peter .Van Riper, dealt in sound as opposed to music. Forti has been exploring the structure of the body and the forces which govern ...

... Spring Awakening GLASGOW MAIN CREDIT for a splendid pro duction of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening by second year stage students at Glasgow's School of Drama must go to director Peter Clough for his comprehension of the sad reality of wedekind's anguished teenagers. This was con trasted with the author's Expressionist, satirical treatment of their grotesque teachers and elders, which ...