... Relatively Speaking GREENWICH RELATIVELY Speaking was Alan Ayckbourn's first big success and, 21 years on, there is little doubt that the play is a classic. Like Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer, which in some way it resembles, I suspect that it will ...

... Speak now MEMBERS Ol- the public interested in the future of the Old Yu have until next week to make their views known. Before givim; permission lor the sale of the buildinu, ihc Charity Commis sioners muM invite comments jnd sug gestions from outsiders ...

... Maguire Speaking ETCETERA THE FUN of the title is that there are actually two Maguires in this intriguing plot, the brothers Redmond, a journal ist (Michael McClare) and Dermot, a terrorist (the splendid Joseph Crilly). Crilly, in subtlety and authority ...

... Relatively Speaking BOSHAM THE PENNY Royal open air theatre in Bosham has been the ideal place to spend evenings during this long and sumptuous summer with the first creamy concoction, a production of Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters being followed ...

... Relatively Speaking MILFORD HAVEN THE TORCH Theatre's current production, Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking, is a perfect summer holiday show, a light hearted party piece that pokes gentle fun at the middle classes, turns over a few garden gnomes and ...

... Action to speak louder than words ARTS COUNCIL chairman Lord Rees-Mogg has been told to act quickly to save the British Theatre Association's unique drama archive before Britain loses a valuable part of its heritage. The National Campaign for the Arts ...

... Speaking for itself with a serious social comment HAMMERSMITH LYRIC The Relapse I THINK that serious social comment in Vanbrugh's The Relapse can very well speak for itself, without being stressed or singled out The selfish, anti-social characters ...

... d theatre and is aiming to become London's first French speaking professional theatre company. Stella Wilson, spokeswoman for the company, told The Stage: There are over 70,000 French speaking people in England, not to mention the number of school and ...

... actors are required to stand (sometimes apart, sometimes close together) and speak at each other. Occasionally they face the audience and speak at them. Rarely do events on stage speak for themselves. The amateur company give their all to the production, and ...

... As he conducts Wagner, he speaks his inner thoughts, about his wife and a handsome young man watching him through opera-glasses from the audi ence, and about the soprano soloist and orchestra leader. Especially, he speaks about his own self-gratification ...

... with no identification of time and place, performed on an empty stage, minus any props and with 28 of the 31 speaking pans (plus many non-speaking walk-ons) played by nine actors, al) dressea in DiacKs, greys and whites. That is the situation with this ...

... superior mime, as in this production. All the central characters use sign language. Some of them speak while they are doing so; others have voices to speak for them. The voices are ac tors, clothed head to foot in discreet puppeteers' black, who follow ...