... Angry Minute Dance Plays RIVERSIDE ANGRY MINUTE DANCE PLAYS is the title of a collection of vignettes made by Toby Armour and her company from New York. It is a perplexing title since few of the scenes appeared to be either angry or minute-wherever you put the accent. Perhaps it was the audience that was meant to get angry, every minute or so. Only at the first performance at Riverside ...

... Looking like a thousand dollars PERHAPS we may be pardoned for making a mistake in one of our captions last week, for the lady whom we thought was Barbara Kelly in our picture of the celebrities of the VALGO Autumn Fair was in fact Celia Lipton. For both ladies appear to defy the passage of time, both are equally gla morous, but Celia has been away from Britain for so long that few of those ...

... Lympany heads new festival ANGLESEY is to have an Arts Festival in the Spring, which will be master minded by Anthony Hose, formerly of the Welsh National Opera Company, and now director of the Buxton Fes tival. The festival, which will be called the Beaumaris Festival, will be a four-day event starting on May 29. The mainstay of the festival will be music, with international concert pian ist ...

... SNO plans major new concert hall Lack of venue costs £100,000 a year THE SCOTTISH National Orchestra claims that the lack of a permanent concert-hall base in Glasgow is costing it £100,000 a year in lost box-office income. So now the SNO has prepared plans for a hall which it would like to see built in a vacant city-centre site, and Glasgow District Council has revealed that a major developer ...

... Talent spotting SWRB New Ballets IN THE past eight or ten years the development of nascent British choreographers for ballet has received increased attention. And as a consequence the need for opportunity and critical encouragement has been established, which is how the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet at Sadler's Wells found itself in the position of presenting an entire programme of works by ...

... The Recruiting Officer RIBMINGHAM THERE'S a meticulous, careful hand on this production which robs it of the robust qualities it needs to release the humour in the play. Beautiful period costumes, elegantly worn by the Young Company's actors, and a suave, unfussy approach to the bows and flourishes of the period etiquette, set the right background style for the production, but there's very ...

... The other Samantha is finally foxed By ELIZABETH SWIFT WHEN IS Samantha Fox not Samantha Fox? When she's Samantha Foxx. ur to put it anotner way wnat ao you do when you are a young actress/ singer, complete with Equity card and work in some of the top shows around, and another girl with practically the same name as yours suddenly becomes a world-famous topless model? Samantha Foxx. a West ...

... Dispute looms over world's largest organ By BRIAN ATTWOOD THE NEWLY opened Hackney Empire could find itself in a row with the South Bank Polytechnic as the two battle to get their hands on Europe's largest musical organ. For five years the former Trocadero Wurlitzer has stood in the college where crowds of people including some who remember hearing it at is former Picca dilly site regularly ...

... Wellington in deep water GREAT Yarmouth's Wellington Pier Theatre which has played host this year to several leading entertainers looks almost certain to be doomed to closure. There was fury from local people when councillors made a shock recom mendation to demolish the entire pier because, they claimed, the £30,000 maintenance costs were too high for them to support. The newly-formed Friends ...

... Council ignores police over 'violent' club A LEADING Northern cabaret club has won its battle to stay open in the face of police opposition which branded it a hotbed of vandalism and violence. Huddersfield's Amsterdam Bar has won the full approval of the whole council for its application for renewal of its entertainment licence despite con tinued objections by the police. The venue's booking ...

... True Brit music hall GUESTS at the annual dinner of the British Music Hall Society, to be held at St Ermin's Hotel, SW1 on December 2, will include Ruth Madoc, LBC presenter Steve Allen, Queen, Ratling Ann Emery and professional commitments permit ting Danny Baker of LWT's Six O'Clock Show and Ballard Ber keley, President of the Green Room Club. Tickets, price £20, are available from Vic and ...

... Stratford boss in 'scapegoat' sacking row By FRANK METCALFE THE MANAGER of Stratford upon Avon's civic hall has been abruptly dismissed from his post, after just nine months amid rumours that he was sacked by the council to save face after a series of blunders. Cyril Bennis learned the shock news from Mayor Leslie Rouch that he would have to leave when his probationary period came to an end in ...