... directed inventively by Phyllida Lloyd is a blend of show and tell, evocative mime and blatant explanation. Charac ters always speak their mind. Thu^the young curate: 'My dreams at this time were vivid, alternating between a bishopric and attractive women' ...

... dis play of sharp-footed zest. Here was both spontaneity and detail, and evidence of students taking easily to the stage. Speaking of ease on stage, Adrian Goodfellow claimed our attention whenever he danced, with his natural bonhomie and smooth style: ...

... theatre companies and arts bodies worst hit in the Government's plans to abolish the Metropolitan County Councils. He was speaking in Newcastle Upon Tyne at the start of a national one-day conference entitled: The Arts in Peril. It was a reassurance ...

... Arts Educational Schools. They packed it with a ready Manhattan pulse and verve, savouring its wry comedy and relishing the speak-easy manner ol trendy Americans in their mid 30s: no matter that they were mostly aged 18. Only in the singing did they falter ...

... and regulations, society begins to break down into disillusioned chaos, with the essential grain production grinding, so to speak, to a halt. A peasant leader is reluctantly crowned emperor but, needless to say, he becomes as seduced by power as his pr ...

... details of new schemes thought to involve commercial sponsorship which would benefit the arts in hard cash terms. Nealon, speaking at a Dublin press conference, congratulated all con cerned with the VAT campaign, which he described as imaginative and well- ...

... history. 1 he Uuldren s Music I heatre appeal was launched last Sunday from the National Theatre by Sir Michael Hor- dem speaking on the BBC Radio prog ramme The Week's Good Cause. The children work to the highest possible standards, he said. They ...

... pan, though flashes of bright light at the beginning and end of each act suggest a certain artificiality. Anthony Hopkins speaks Dcelcy's lines as if they were everyday drawing-room dialogue, without the pregnant pauses or artificial emphases which previous ...

... real celebration of the day when other countries which look to us so much take it so seriously. DOUGLAS BYNG, photographed speaking to the Friends of Greenwhich Theatre, at their supper on March 12. Still a remarkable reconteur, he celebrated his 91st birthday ...

... and for sheer enthusiasm they really can't be beaten. In Honduras there is absolutely nothing at all, apart from an English-speaking theatre group who are doing Simon's Plaza Suite how can they identify with that? said de la Tour. The Nicaraguans don't ...

... windows, the drama, strange, remote, violent under a controlled surface, is presided over by a kind of state official who speaks as the voice of God and most of the time is having another whisky for the road. There is a younger man who has been seriously ...

... and lack of I expression and turning. The full humour and horror of the trial scene provides a powerful climax and a clear speaking Portia (Geraldine Burnett) but she could do with a little more expression who gives a good performance as a foil to the evil ...