... Theatre Company have just launched the first in a series of English-speaking productions at the Jariateatern in Stockholm. In this scene from Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking are NEIL FRANCE and MAGGIE RYDER. The coproducer was Barrie Stacey and ...

... (designer Elizabeth Ascroft) with 12 bells suspended from the flies and draped as a background shroud-like linen, the company speaks the verse fluently with an admirable range of tone, bringing the chorus vividly to life. There is lingering incantation i ...

... moral dilemmas it poses, unbearably moving. His speaking and singing voice is as young and musical as ever. Christine Ebersole, fresh from playing the very different role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, speaks and sings with the purity and refined English accent ...

... GERMANY: Spared the controversies of 1980, when the jury were blamed for their timorous selections, the 1981 festival of German-speaking theatre in Berlin passed off in relative calm. Apart from the world premiere of Peter Greiner's Keitz (from Cologne) and ...

... discovered to his horror that the adjudication was in Welsh, and. as they don't speak Welsh in Cwm, he couldn't understand a single word of it. Fortunately, a Welsh-speaking stage hand could, and Spinetti, naturally hoping to hear he had done well, asked ...

... admiration and love for him on trust. For Cliff Burnett's upstanding Bassa nio was compounded of conviction and some of the best speaking of the Bard's verse I've heard in a long time. Top honours, however, must go to John Levitt for a Shylock which bes- traddled ...

... the most positive I have seen. There is plenty of action in the opening market scene with the cast crowding on stage; the speaking is clear and firm. Music helps to describe the situation in most scenes and it too is evident. Even tually Sinbad, or Andrew ...

... over small and often childish things, like the old man's obsession with wood- carving and the wife's alleged mean ness. Speaking broad naturalistic Scots, and revealing all the quirkiness of age and lifestyle, Buick and Gallie make a splendid job of ...

... captures its young audience as much because of the suitability of the performers as the minimal script. From John Buick, speaking each word in bold articulation as the Sheriff of Nottingham, to Jeremy Rose, as Robin Hood, an upright man dressed in ...

... creation, The Gambler com plete with the studio theatre converted into a seedy club for the occasion. Well, it's not strictly speaking a play, not quite a musical, certainly not always a comedy and despite the cabaret setting is not really that either. Director ...

... UNDERGROUND, the performing alias of this year's MA Drama Group at Essex University, staged the premiere in the English- speaking world of Ulrich Plenzdorf s The New Sorrows Of Young W, translated by Christopher Silver. The title refers to Goethe's ...

... slurry. Their conversations intercut to a flashback as her mother waits for school to come out 14 years ago. Theatrically speaking, the trouble is that we are hectored, as well as lec tured, and, in the second play, subjected to Matheson's own theory of ...