... Susan Moore. David Fieldsend as Lindsev (Almaviva to every other production) sounds somewhat unsteady in the top reg ister but speaks and acts his send-up part with impeccable timing. Anne Morley-Pnestman ...

... ried Valencienne in Delia Jones, Eric Shilling was again a crisp, crusty Baron Zeta, and John Fryatt, whether singing or speaking, made an expansively clear-cut, humorously brow-raising portrait of the little secretary Njegus. Antnony merryn ...

... example, that the pilgrimage to Beethoven, given a straight reading by Sabor, is a fictional event. Still, most of the passages speak for themselves, and many of them are quite delightful, the honours, however, going not to Wagner him self but to his perspicacious ...

... with Sidney Papert. The Human Voice comes in the standard Wildman translation and was acted by Evie Garratt as the woman, speaking to her lover who is to marry, for the last time. It had its longeurs as well as moments which were genuinely moving; perhaps ...

... Bob Wilson; they give regular workshops concerned with fusing music, movement and drama. By origin Belgian, the words they speak in Laura's Dream are in English and, while the play deals with a girl whose only reality in that of univer sal substitutes ...

... It could have been a theatrical disaster. Instead it resulted in a ble production musically, dramatically and scenically speak ing. For the young Romanian director Andrei Serban, this was his first opera. The Soviet conductor Mark Ermler on the other ...

... equipment, cameras, tape recorders, the lot, to probe the mystery, which is complicated by the arrival of the fluent, brogue-speaking, enigmatic stranger Kernahan, played with brilliant poise and penetration by Martyn James The playwright constructs, with ...

... hours, it is an anecdote about a woman teacher of English who has little or no experience and is thrown into a polyglot class speaking not a word of the language Absurdities and blockages caused by the situation provide a certain measure of fun and frolic ...

... The Tales Of Hoffmann BEAUFORT OPERA THE OFFENBACH centenary, operatically speaking, came into London with a workshop company's performance rather than a full-scale professional effort. Hoffmann was one of the first staged productions of the group ...

... MARRIOTT REVIEWS THEY SPEAK of the noblest Roman of them all; at the Olivier is the noblest of Moors, played by Paul Scofield in Peter Hall's splendid production of Othello. Scofield is the purest spirited and purest speaking actor on our stage today ...

... Thorndike. Simon Ward defines it clearly from the hospital bed of a paralysed patient. Ken Harrison can only move his head and speak but. devoid of any hand or body movements, Simon Ward projects with frightening urgency the dilemma of a paralysed man who ...

... not signify nothing but it is all the same a little less than significant. The cast divides almost equally into those who speak their lines with understanding and so communicated directly with the (largely young) audience and those who mouth and gabble ...