... The Greeks at the Aldwvch R. B. MARRIOTT REVIEWS JOHN BARTON and Kenneth Cavander went to Euripides, Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles for material for The Greeks, the latest production by RSC at the Aldwych. The composite work consists of three plays, The War, The Murders, The Gods, which, seen all in one day, last for about eight hours. The production is in every respect a remarkable ...

... 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 ting, talking, discussing, philo sophising. going to the left and the right, reading about socialism and Vietnam and various activities ab road ...

... Mixed Feelings CREWE IT WAS NOT only the swansong at Crewe of David Sumner when the Crewe Repertory Company presented Donald Churchill's new hilarious comedy Mixed Feelings at the Lyceum. 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, ...

... Arms And The Man CAMBRIDGE ITS ALWAYS a 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 decorative, sparkling piece completely at one with the spirit of the play itself. Robin Archer's ...

... 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 company, under the direction of Robert Pennant-Jones, did ex tremely well. Moftere is shown in anxious hours and in success, in his dealing with ...

... Midland Management Showcase SILVER SKILLET, MAIDENHEAD THE MIDLAND Management Showcase at the Silver Skillet, Maidenhead on February 6 gave a generous allotment of time to one of the stable's hottest tips for stardom, Tom Bright and Suzy Breeze, the husband and wife team who started last mer in their home town, macK- pool, at the Diamond Horseshoe. The 50 minutes or so was well justified, ...

... Rospel Artistes Showcase LA TAVERNA, EPPING ROSPEL ARTISTES held another showcase at its Epping home, the hospitable La Taverna last week, showing off eight acts, some already prominent on the club scene, some well on their way, and some fairly new. All the acts were either musical or comedy specialists did not get a look in on this occasion. Rospel had invited along a fair number of ...

... The Summer Party SHEFFIELD IT IS always a bad sign when the star turn of a play is its design. Roger Glossop's set for The Summer Party, Stephen Poliakoffs new play premiered at the Crucible, shifts dramatically from a tree-shaded private recess in the parkland setting of an all-night open-air festival to the festival's stage where magical things are made to happen and the evening's few ...

... Ladybird, Ladybird BRIGHTON PAM GEMS' heartbreaking glimpse into the 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 written with an authen ticity and insight that sets the observer ...

... Gone With Hardy NOTTINGHAM NO DOUBT with the idea of tracing the elements which shaped Stan Laurel before he met Oliver Hardy, David Allen's Gone With Hardy splits what must always be regarded as the complete set. Laurel and Hardy were a precious pair. Take one away and the magic flounders. If David Allen last year voted Australia's most promising playwright had plotted the course of Ollie ...

... Viaduct BUSH PAUL COPLEY'S Viaduct, at the Bush, is a strange chilling work, set in a cold, lonely atmosphere, the characters flickering with life in a kind of dim isolation. There is the rather bullying hus band of a young woman of contras ting gentleness; a loner odd-job fel low casts shadows. At the core moves Emmerson, a tramp or drop out possibly, but certainly a symbo lic figure hiding ...

... Make Or Break LYRIC IN Make or Break, at Hammersmith Lyric, Michael Frayn turns his attention to the world of business, to a particular firm which sells a patent walling and is holding an exhibition in Frankfurt. The firm's negotiations, exploita tions. hopes and profits are the thing. But of course there are also the people who are running things, sometimes it seems night and day. The big ...