... under-funded. It was prising. therefore, to find that Gerard Bagley's Dance Drama Theatre group gave one of its most successful performances in recent years at the Ashcroft Theatre. Croydon. Bagley has selected a diverse range of choreographers, which gives ...

... Cinderella NORTHERN BALLET NORTHERN BALLET Theatre now has its own brand new version of Cinderella, and for this small, game company--which has struggled through many vicissitudes in its first decade--the production must be considered a triumph. It ...

... cause, and a twittering, upper-middle-class mother who has strong affinities with similar mums of the Quiet Wedding era of theatre. Ackland. however, writes, as be fits a dramatist inspired by Maugham, with a sharper, more ast ringent wit, and with a deeper ...

... from the words of the Perth poet, and presented it as moving tribute at the Edinburgh Festival of 1978. Revived at Perth Theatre in Burns' week, the piece has even more impact, with Fleming sure in speech and inflection, and the references to Perth people ...

... Director of productions for Theatr Powys, Joan Mills, will be leaving the company at the and of M^rch after directing her final production School For Clowns. Prior to working in Wales Mills was director of the Young People's Theatre Scheme at the Royal Court ...

... Trees In The Wind ROYAL COURT THE 7-84 Theatre Company paid a visit to the Royal Court with a short series of performances of John McGrath's Trees in the Wind, first produced in 1971. Aurelia, Belle, Carlyle and Joe weave in and out of a multiple set ...

... It was a world premiere for this rumbustious rib-tickler and further proof of the capacity of this delight ful Edwardian theatre to survive in the face of every obstacle. It was, in the modern tradition, bawdy and deliberately casual in the choice of ...

... treat to see a classic play revived in the theatre with an assured defence for the styles of presentation and acting which belong to its own period. Such is Jonathan Lynn's produc tion for the Cambridge Theatre Company of Shaw's romantic com edy, a highly ...

... The King's Clown TOWER THEATRE THE TAVISTOCK Repertory Company at the Tower, Canonbury, were very enterprising in staging David Vando's play about Moltere, The King's Clown. It is quite an elaborate work in its development and ramifications, and the ...

... considerable amount to offer. Form erly known as Mouth and Trousers, Tom and Suzy would appear to have set their sights on theatre and television work rather than the clubs, in that they lay a good deal of emphasis on rapid costume changes and specially ...

... reality of life for so many women, Ladybird. Ladybird, is the most moving presentation seen at the Brighton Actors' Workshop theatre at the Sea House in Brighton for many months. Concerned with a mother de pressed to the point of physical ill ness. it is ...

... Hartley pounds a ragtime piano as a neat commentary on Anne Durham's choreography and Trevor Pitt's designs for vaudeville theatre and earlv film set. Marian Bryson ...