... trtrtrtr ACT PUBLICATIONS Stand 5 Moat Farm, Turkey Cock Lane. Lexden Heath, Colchester, Essex C03 5ND (0206)211733 ACT Publications will be exhibiting the recently launched Big Lighting Book and the Big Control Book which provide current data on equip ment available in the entertainment industry. ARKLIGHT Stand 21 2 Partridge Close, Upper Bruntingthorpe. Leicestershire LE17 5QY (05331 ...

... ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller. Redgrave, Farnham, February 10 to 28. Cast: Peter Laird, Brenda Peters, Alex Hardy, Christine Kavanagh, Jack Fortune, Tim Bannerman, Susan Twist, Paul Benzing, Jan Shand, Matthew Parker (Daniel Sexton). Director: Stephen MacDonald. De signer: Juliet Shillingford. Lighting: Vincent Herbert. Sound: Chris Thursby. #AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare. Wolsey, ...

... for his style of humour was considerably removed from that of the gagsters and sketch performers of the forties and fifties and he never fitted well into the variety scene which was the main outlet for comedians in those days. He was much better suited to radio, in which he had considerable success with his own show Here's Howard. Son of a minister, Ian McKenzie (his real name) was born in ...

... |OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN Aberdeen Arts Centra- Salad Days 115-181 Haddo Houm Haddo Youth Theatre 1 1 5-1 8) ASHTON UNDER-LYNE Tameside- Tameside Theatre Summer Festival (12-261 AYR Gaiety- Planet of the Seasons BAGNOR W.turmlll- Songbook (17 5-18 6) BANGOR ThutrGwynedd -Sail or Return (1J-14) BASILDON Towngate- Second Stride/Weighing the Heart (13-181 BATH Theatre Royal Deathtrap BELFAST Grand ...

... WED, APRIL 7 SONG AND DANCE, concert for the theatre by Andrew Lloyd Web ber. Palece. Management: Cameron Mackintosh and the Real ly Useful Co. Ltd. Cast includes: Wayne Sleep, Marti Webb. Direc tor: John Caird. Designer: David Hersey. Choreography: Anthony van Laast. Costumes: Robin Don. Musical supervision: Harry Rabinowitz. Orchestrations: An drew Lloyd Webber. Press: Peter Thompson ...

... IN THE CAN STEVEN BERKOFFS breathtak ing adaptation of Metamorphosis will finally reach more than London theatre goers this year, courtesy of the BBC. Work has just begun on a TV version of the Berkoff classic at Elstree Studios with the cast that appeared in last year's run at the Mermaid Theatre Berkoff himself, Tim Roth, Linda Marlowe, Saskia Reeves and Gary Olsen. Martin Auty will produce ...

... [OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN His Majesty's Oklahoma (17.10-31.10) ABERYSTWYTH Artt Centre- Hamlet 117-18); Doctor Faustus (20-22) ALTRINCHAM Garrick Robert and Elizabeth 117-21) ASHTON UNDER-LYNE Tameside The Sound of Music (17-221 AYR Civic Edge of Darkness (30.8-6.111 BANGOR Thutr Gwynadd Hamlet 120-22); Promised Land (17-19) BARROW Sixth Form College- RSC/British Telecom Tour BASILDON Mirren ...

... [out of town ABERDEEN AtwrdMK Aru Centre A Midsummer Night's Dream 126-28) His M|itty'i To Kill A Mockingbird (24-28) Robin Hood A Chorus of Disapproval (23-28) Old Bull Arts Centre La Folie (24-25) BASILOON Towngata Safety in Numbers (24-27) RASINGSTOKE Havmeriwt The Reluctant Debutante (12 281 BATH ThMtr* Royal Robinson Crusoe (23.12-29.1) BELFAST Grand Opera House Joseph and the Amazing ...

... ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller. Perth Theatre to October 3. Cast: Roy Hanlon, Kay Gallic, Benny Young, Amanda Prior, Colin Gour- ley, John Buick, Jane Nelson Pee bles, Julian Cope, Lorna Blackmore, Phillip Chubb (Kip Kirkland). Direc tor: Antony Groscr. Designer: Janet Scarfe. Lighting: Simon Sewell. CABARET, book by Joe Master- off, music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Bninton, Musselburgh ...

... Peck up a winner at the Prix Italia The BBC has hit the award trail yet again by picking up a series of awards at the Prix Italia. One of BBC2's popular Screen Two presentations, After Pilkington, which was produced by Kenneth Trodd and directed by Christ opher Morahan, was voted top television drama. BBC drama group head, Jonathan Powell, said: I'm delighted that the drama department should ...

... PATRICIA HODGSON, who has been secretary for the BBC for the last two years, has been appointed head of the corporation's new Policy and Plan ning Unit in the last stages of Director General Michael Checkland's restruc turing of senior management. Plymouth freelancer JENNY HULL, 22, has joined TSW as a continuity announcer. She previously presented an arts scries for BBC South West and for HTV ...

... DAVID MERRICK presents his first play in this country, David Wil liamson's Emerald City, at the Lyric on May 9. This is a Sydney Thearte Company production and is directed by Richard Wherrett with an all- Australian cast. THE HOWARD BRENTON sea son at the Royal Court opens on April 12 with Bloody Poetry, seen previous ly at Hampstead Theatre. Max Staf- ford-Clark directs a cast including Lizzy ...