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THEATRE NEWS: American venue strengthens links with Britain

... American venue strengthens links with Britain JEREMY JEHU repoters THE CALIFORNIA venue which aims to become America's National Theatre is out to strengthen its links with Britain. The Old Globe Theatre of San Diego is waiting to hear in the New Year ...

Published: Thursday 22 December 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 28 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Dressing up

... 17th century to the present day. Pouting and posing in Georgian garb and through to the simple tee shirt of Edmund White's America, the group's selection of prose provided some explanation for the horror of today's 'closet queen'. Is the clone with the ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

Elementary my dear Watson!

... trusty Watson as they were originally drawn rather than as the parodies they have later become. It is set both in industrial America and 20 years later in an English country house, and Leonard Birchenall, in his last design for the Vic, has created a set ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

DANCE: Dance

... her Dancers and Musicians, come to us with an impressive reputation in the field of post modern dance from their native America, perhaps there is something more to it all, beyond what was presented at Sadler's Wells. This was surely not a good choice ...

Published: Thursday 16 June 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 21 | Tags: theatre review 

More Light Entertainment News: Dallas Boys have never been away

... considerable, with big fallowings in Holland, Sweden, and Austria. They have been to Israel, South Africa and Australia and in America appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1965. They had their own show at the Palladium as recently as 1980, and they've toured ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 4 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: A dazzling wordsmith

... Scanlan) erupts into Victoria's life, claiming to have discovered a map which proves that Ireland's St Brendan discovered America centuries before Columbus. In falling for George, Victoria swallows her initial doubts about the map. This leads to her fall ...

Published: Thursday 17 March 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 23 | Tags: theatre review 

THEATRE NEWS: Councils' cable care

... COUNCIL-backed perfor mers will have to wait for their chance of Cable Television star dom. Daunted by reports of disasters in America, the national funding body is taking i cautious approach to sugges tions that it should be cornering the market in taking ...

Published: Thursday 22 December 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 28 | Tags: theatre review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: Fo a truly modern clown

... dead seriousness with which Fo portrays Scapino's teacher is hilarious. Technocrat is a sketch ridiculing technocratic America and all those who arc fascinated by it in American-slang gibberish. Here Fo switches back and forth with incredible timing ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 24 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Trouper Noel's a proper madam

... pantomime princess as Maria. But the contrast between old-world, cutesy, picturesque Lichtenburg and thrusting, friendly America, with money to throw away, is a bit hard to swallow. Peter Hepple ...

Published: Thursday 24 March 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Powerful snippet of psychological drama

... follows is apparently a homily on cultural treachery. Jones' experiences as a member of an oppressed minority in post Civil War America has failed to teach him humanity. Faced with a people prepared to be his subjects, he sets about oppressing them with enthusiasm ...

Published: Thursday 10 November 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 348 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre News: Adamson casting 'is not exploitation'

... While Adamson was cast less than a fortnight ago, the play has been planned for months and Davis spent a long period in America working on a new version of the famous post-war thriller with its author, Frederick Knott. The part of the detective had not ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review 

OPERA: A Spitfire heroine

... tricks, would require columns of print. In a vast glass building, a sand-bag- entrenched crowd of guerrillas (in Central America?), together with a troupe of circus performers, act, rehearse and improvise a version of Carmen. Jugglers, tight-rope walkers ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 21 | Tags: theatre review