... monster by the Krupps and Siemens and their like, is anatomised by Brecht, writing in 1938. It is all here people afraid to speak critically, even in the family circle; the bodies of suspects sent home in tin coffins after interrogation; doctors in hospitals ...

... await their next victim. But nobody comes Eventually Iron, the self appointed leader of the group, bullies the other into speaking about their favourite subjects. His insistent cajoling forced them, sometimes unconsciously, to reveal their inner most ...

... Montague and Capulet, and on the spoken poetic word rather than on action (though there are naturally a few fight sequences). Speaking the poetry is a cast of eight who have the difficult task of enacting a famous tragedy with hardly any props or costumes ...

... in between. Thankfully, the author has avoided sentimentalising about his characters preferring, wisely, to allow them to speak for themselves through a series of deftly interlock ing. and often brutal, flashbacks which serve to pinpoint the critical ...

... in 1958, re-read it last year and decided it was worth presenting on the stage. I made a few cuts but no changes. There speaks a writer of decision, modesty and honesty. In my view, he was right to let the play on to a stage, for several good reasons ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... world metaphorically stood on its head. The original dialogue has been turned into a running commentary by Henk van Ulsen, who speaks the lines as Merlin, to introduce the arias and set-pieces for a quartet of singers and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra ...

... holds more threat to his welfare than it does deferment. Their playing of the sinister holds an interesting con trast. Both speak poor English. Matthews' manner is poised, cool and oblique. Morrison is more com mitted, more personal, showing the Scottish ...

... 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 ...

... the work- Krapp and Warnm^ extra-terrestrial malevolence no less powerful for being dusted with the powder (theatrically speaking) of the creator's own chiselling. The staging is. one presumes deliberately so. extremely simple a matter of black tabs, ...