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Opera: Miller's Master class

... class for Nexus Opera on scenes from Mozart's The Mar riage of Figaro on January 21 at 8.00pm in the studio of the Lyric Theatre. Hammersmith. Paula An- glin will feature as Countess Almaviva, with Sheila Brand as Susanna and Peter Savidge as Figaro. ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 23 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Rananim

... group Moving Being is another contribution to the ever-widening Lawrence cult. This 2'/4-hour show at the Sher man Arena Theatre, Cardiff was entitled Rananim (derived from a Hebrew psalm) which was Lawren ce's name for the community of kindred spirits ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Long Voyage Home at the Cottesloe

... Becomes Electra. But as short tales of the sea and sailors they provide riveting theatre in the hands of director Bill Bryden, designer Hayden Griffin and the National Theatre company, conveying, as few other plays have done, the loneliness and even the ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Topsy Turvy

... Topsy Turvy PERTH PREMIERED at Perth Theatre, Charles Bell's musical play about Gilbert and Sullivan. Topsy Turvy, received a deservedly rapturous reception. Stage director Andrew McKinnon and musical director John Scrimger are backed by a company of ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Sounds Fantastic

... Sounds Fantastic RIVERSIDE AWAITING THE rebuilding of the Mermaid Theatre, the Molecule Club has lighted on Riverside Studios as a London home for their scientific plays for school-age audiences; this one is launching itself on a five- month tour in ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Dance: Carmen

... staging on the chorus in Act 1. Stefanos Lazaridis' atmospheric settings are effectively rehoused on the stage of the Grand Theatre, Leeds. After a somewhat uncertain Habanera in Act I, Gillian Knight went on to create a gripping Car men. She sang with ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 26 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Hughie

... Keach has not been handed a greatly demanding London theatre debut in Eugene O'Neill's Hughie at the Cottesloe. This is a slight piece indeed, which would just about be satisfying at a lunchtime theatre, set around the reception desk at a seedy off- Broadway ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 95 | Tags: theatre review 

Patti Pavilion Diamond Jubilee

... Championships, and Johnny has worked as both an acrobat comedian and professional diver. Having taken the act to nightclubs and theatres throughout the world, Barbara and Johnny formed their own production company three years ago. With a sheaf of excellent reviews ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 91 | Tags: theatre review 

Ruby Cinema fate in the balance

... Bridlington, tells me that he and the local Civic Society have helped to save the old Lounge Theatre in the town, which has some rare panels from the Empire Theatre. London. Terry Peskett, manager of the Roehampton A.T. Centre. 232 Roe- hampton Lane. SW15 ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 401 | Page: 91 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Club at Hampstead

... Ban- nerman, which is a monument of tasteless, meaning featureless, masculinity. The all-Australian cast from the Nimrod Theatre dig in wonderfully to this meaty material Jeff Ashby as the crafty administrator, Ron Graham as the plain-spoken coach. Barry ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 95 | Tags: theatre review 

More Play Reviews: Heartaches Of An English Pussycat

... Heartaches Of An English Pussycat OLD VIC BALZAC IS not the name which springs to mind as the source of visual theatre, but the Paris-based, Argentinian by origin Group TSE have pulled off something of a miracle presentation. The source story is not perhaps ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 96 | Tags: theatre review 

More Play Reviews: Charlie Brown

... Goodchild; choreography is by Gil lian Gregory. Dave Cooke's arrangement of the Clark Gesner score sounds fine even in this small theatre and it is sur prising or not so, if you know Upstream's standards just what effects can be created. For the youngest children ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 96 | Tags: theatre review