... Strauss ballet score NORTHERN BALLET THEATRE Cinderella FOR THEIR New Year season in the Opera Theatre of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Northern Ballet Theatre have very happily revived Cinderella with music by Johann Strauss and choreography by Robert de Warren, the company's artistic director. 1 liV ULIlgllllUI UlUdlV 111 Ulfc Ulllj Strauss score specifically written ...

... Updated 'Beggar' features skinheads, rock and satire OPERA FACTORY The Beggar's Opera OPERA FACTORY gave a predictably updated Beggar's Opera as the second ottering of their season at the Drill Hall, Chenies Street. Paul Daniel's musical version, which he conducted from the harpsichord, omits about a third of the original songs and introduces rock for the whore's scene, in which half-naked ...

... Ballerina souvenir SCOTTISH BALLET fans will be able to start the new year with a special souvenir of the company's international ly acclaimed prima ballerina, Elaine McDonald. A book commemorating in pictures her many performances in such differing roles as Giselle and Mary Queen of Scots, with comments from critics all over the country, has just been publish ed. Written by John S. Dixon, it ...

... Prize money for Genee awards WITH REFERENCE to the review of I the Adeline Genee Medal performance I (STAGE, January 7, the Royal Academy I of Dancing tells us that the total prize I money for the Imperial Group Genee I Awards could amount to £6,500, if gold, I silver and bronze awards were given to I both female and male sections. I ...

... Counter Revolution EXTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY AS CUSTOMARY with extemporary Dance Company, the dancers are well- schooled and well-balanced, with each member of the team having something individual to offer. Now that Emilyn Claid is at the helm, I expected to see evidence of new directions, but it was not until the last of four items at The Place, that something really different emerged. ...

... A shining sense of destiny LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET The Nutcracker FROM THE MOMENT of Matz Skoog's entry as Karl in this production at the Royal Festival Hatl a shining sense of destiny marked him apart. Whereas many ot the other dancers at the opening party assumed their characters dutifully and thus dully, Skoog's glow came from the conviction that he was meant for better things, and so when ...

... City EXTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY IT IS UNFORTUNATE that the dance-going public first saw Tom Jobe dancing in his own work City, for by comparison the same piece danced at The Place by Extemporary Dance Company made little impact. When Jobe (with Linda Gibbs and Linda Brewer) danced it, he wallowed in a sense of outrageous camp. It was impossible to watch starchily from the outside sneakily ...

... King Lear YOUNG VIC THE FRANK DUNLOP production of King Lear emerges again at the Young Vic, now directed by Andrew Robertson with Frederick Jaeger replac ing James Bolam as Lear. It seems less impressive. Whereas under Dunlop it took wing, here there is a certain sluggishness now and again which stops the flow of events. But a daring tackling of the great work on a limited scale remains, ...

... Who's A Hero? OLD HALF MOON ANNA JEBON's sumptuous set em phasises the pettiness of the characters' lives. The green football field extends to the front of the stage, and placed on top are the sofa, pub and hospital ward in which they spend their time. The hero of the title is not a football player but maybe a supporter in a Lon don crowd. Such a crowd consists of frightened young men who in ...

... Revival still can't reach the heights ENO The Marriage of Figaro ENGLISH NATIONAL Opera's Marriage of Figaro still can't quite reach the heights. The revival at the Coliseum of Jonathan Miller's 1978 production had cast changes that gave us some good vocal accomplishment yet the performance, under James Judd, had its sluggish moments and spontaneous living tiiaraciers were missing. ...

... Disaster of past haunts the present NATIONAL Summer EDWARD BOND describes his new work, Summer, as a European play, and in its first production at the Cottesloe we see the meaning. Three generations are gathered in an Eastern European seaside resort; Xenia has come on holiday, Marthe, an old servant, is dving of cancer, the young people David and Ann, are meeting once again and trying ...

... Real Time JOINT STOCK JOINT STOCK theatre group opened its 1982 season at the College of St Mark, Plymouth with the world premiere of the collectively written play, Real Time, which is scheduled to undertake an extensive national tour during the coming three months. Real lime sets out to portray ordinary contemporary life as it really is, as opposed to literary or theatrical fantasy, and is ...