... Dance Drama EDUCATIONAL DANCE groups are among those who are hardest hit by the present financial situation, for whilst arguments continue as to whether the best of them should be subsidised on an arts (as at present) or an educational basis, they are sadly under-funded. It was prising. therefore, to find that Gerard Bagley's Dance Drama Theatre group gave one of its most successful ...

... 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 is a ballet which will entertain and light audiences tor years. The music is by Johann Strauss, it is lilting and lyrical and pierced with ...

... The Lost Princess 4R MOVEMENT YES, THE Princess was lost. In fact, the whole idea of the Princess being lost was lost, I am sure, to many who did not consult their programme for the detailed storyline that was not apparent on stage. Of course, there's probably nothing like a genuine kidnapping for being perfectly cipnerable to any onlooker not privy to the plot. So it would follow that the ...

... DURING FEBRUARY and March, the Royal Ballet will present the world premiere of a one-act ballet by Kenneth MacMillan; revivals of Mam'zelle Angot, The Four Sea sons and Voluntaries; and per formances of Elite Syncopations; Four Schumann Pieces, A Month in the Country, La Fille Mai Gar- dee and The Sleeping Beauty. McMillan's new work, entitled Gloria, will receive its first ...

... 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 ...

... Bastard Angel WAREHOUSE BARRIE KEEFFE's Bastard Angel, at the Warehouse, is about a woman singer Shelley and a pop group, behind the scenes, on the stage, and at home. It is a dark, harsh study of what seems to be entirely a vicious way of life. Keeffe draws his violent, anti social characters vividly and strongly; his dialogue is packed with most of the four letter words (no one is able to ...

... Before The Party OXFORD BY ITS revival of Rodney Ackland's Before The Party--based on a short story by Somerset Maugham the Oxford Playhouse Company has performed a singular service of deserved reclamation for an unjustly neglected British dramatist. Despite the fact that Before The Party, being set in the immediate post-1945 period has much talk of rationing and the preoccupation of an ...

... Move Over Mrs Markham HARIOW FOR the eighties the Harlow Playhouse has not only acquired a new general manager, Douglas Addey, it has acquired a host of new ideas. The year begins with a subscrip tion booking system eight shows (including a concert) for the price of six a studio season by the East 15 Acting School, regular children's matinees and a two-week (rather than six-day) run for ...