... as children is an uphill task for any per former and especially for one who has been associated with that cult craze The Muppet Show. All too often, the attempt to appear grown-up means ill-digested surrea lism or a plethora of blue jokes. But, feet ...

... troupe ot perlormers, seen as real people (but how real?) in a kitchen taken straight out of the mad Scandinavian chef of The Muppet Show and onstage in a significant revue at the Pheasant Pluckers' Ball. The trouble was that the funny bits, such as the ...

... whole string of other world figures cavorting to Richard Attree's splendidly ethereal music. The best of these are the almost Muppet-like sea creatures of the Full Fathom Five underwater sequence, and the huge stilt-walking repre sentatives of good and evil ...

... Black Theatre Puppets, musical spe ciality Tyne and Wear and chanteuse, Toni Morrell. Bulbeck once worked on Jim Henson's Muppets, and it shows; his characters have that same fantastic appeal as, picked up by u.v. lighting, they float against their black ...

... sounds good. Which leaves the plant: Martin j Anthony (operator) and Mel Taylor (voice). How perfectly they made this nightmare Muppet comic and horrific. B. R. Martin ...

... Durham-Matthews and Janet Spencer Turner show outstanding flair for farce, and there is a scene-stealing debut by Coco, a Muppet-like poodle, surely a star in the making. Nick Smurthwaite ...

... means the stage is strewn with cabbage leaves and adorned by a stuffed pig. The action spills into the auditorium in ncar-Muppet Show fashion when two characters take up seats in one of the boxes to watch players perform Hamlet in a brief play-within-the-play ...