... LARK RISE by Keith Dewhurst, from the novel by Flora Thompson. Everyman, Cheltenham, July 24 to August 16. Cast: Stephanie Kersey, Robert Shave, Hilary Cromie, John Griffiths, Alan Mosley, Dermot McLaughlin, Jacquie Crago, Veda Warwick, Marilyn Cutts, Mark Carey, micnaei uonenll, Kieron Jecchims, Reginald Jessup, Bill Bradley, Julia Tipton. Director: Barbara House man. Designer: Donald ...

... Y, JULY 17 CABARET, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb. Strand. Manage ment: Paul Barnard for Theatre Royal, j Hanley. Cast includes: Wayne Sleep, l Kelly Hunter, Oscar Quitak, Peter Land, Rodney Cot tarn, Grazina Frame, Vivienne Martin. Director and choreographer: Gillian Lynne. Desig ner: Mark Thompson. Lighting: Michael Northen. Press: Claire Thorn ton (Dennis Davidson Associates), ...

... [OUTOFTOWN ABERDEEN His Majeety's Scotland the What? ALOEBURGH Snap* Mattingt Swan Killer (from 16) ARBROATH Webstar Jim Macleod TV Showband/Country and Weatern Show AYR Gaiety 1986 Gaiety Whirl BATH Theatre Royal The Cocktail Parly (from IS) BEBINGTON Oval Sports Centre Circut Burleaque (18-70) BIRMINGHAM Midland* Art* Centre The Saga of Erik the Viking (15--17,191 Triangle TIE Showcase (15 ...

... Part one of a comprehensive guide to entertainment in British resorts ARBROATH Webster Theatre Jim Macleod TV Show- band (Tuesdays. July 8 to August 26): Country and Western Show with Gerry Ford, Jeannie Morrison, Clem Allan, the Gambler, Hoe Down Dancers (Thurs days, July 10 to August 14). AVIEMORE Stakis Coyiumbridge Resort Hotel The Stingrays (Monday); George Duffus, Mary Cameron (Tuesday), ...

... lOUTOFTOWisT ABERDEEN Hi. Majesty's Scotland the What? ALDEBURGH Snap* Mattings Swan Killer {to 29) ARBROATH Webster Jim Macleod TV Showband/Country and Western Show ASHT0N-UNDER4.YNE Tammide Hancocks Finest Hour AYH Ctvk Ten Times Table Ifrom 29) Gaiety 1986 Gaiety Whirl BANGOR Theatr GwyiMdd Oliver (from 29) BARNET Old Bull Arts Centra Once A Catholic (1.2. Chalk and Cheese T/C) BASINGSTOKE ...

... THE HAUNTED THROUGH LOUNGE AND RECESSED DIN ING NOOK AT FARNDALE CAS TLE by David McGiUrvray and Wal ter Zeriin, Jnr. Redgrave, Farnham. Cast: Yvette Byrne, Josephine Wood- ford, Eunice Roberts, Jan Shand, Genevieve Walsh, Alexander Han- soa-Akins. Director: Kit Thacker. JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK by Sean O'Casey Gate, Dublin from July IS. Cast: Donal McCann, Geraldine Plunkett, John Kavanagb, ...

... CHARLEY'S AUNT by Brandon Thomas. Harrogate Theatre to August 30. THE GHOST TRAIN by Arnold I Ridley. Mercury, Colchester to August 16. Cast: Robert Angell, Karen Copper- field- Charmian Eyre. David Goudge, rower, Trevor Jones, Vivienne \LM.ivter, Guy Scantlebury, Brian I Smith, Simon Warwick. Deborah Winckles. Director: Michael Winter. J Designer: Clare Birks. Lighting and j sound: Jim Bowman ...

... JACK LEMMON stars in a season of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Jour ney Into Night, which is being pre sented by Triumph Apollo Produc tions at the Theatre Royal, Haymar- ket from August 4 to October 4, with Jonathan Miller directing. The pro duction was seen last April at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway. THE ROYAL OPERA is present ing five new productions during the 1986-87 season, Janacek's ...

... OPERA NORTH starts its autumn season at the Grand, Leeds with The Capture of Troy, the first part of Berlioz's The Trojans, the first per formance being on September 27. The American soprano Kristine Ciesinski makes her Opera North debut as Cassandra, with Ronald Hamilton as Aeneas, Lucy Burge in the mime role of Andromache and Nicola Sharkey and Richard Salter in other leading roles. Other ...

... JONATHAN MILLER is directing The Mikado, the first new production from English National Opera in its 1986-87 Coliseum season, a co-pro duction with Houston Grand Opera and Los Angeles Music Centre Opera Association. The cast includes Richard Angas, Bonaventure Bottone, Richard Van Allan, Lesley Garrett, Felicity Palmer and Ann Howard. It opens on September 27. Following on October 29 is a new ...

... HARLEM'S PRANCING HORSE SHOW During the Dance Theatre of Harlem's present season at the Coliseum, the company is giv ing the British premiere of the ballet Equus, a psychological drama about a boy who, though he worships horses, blinds them. In a sense it is an English ballet, by a man who is in a sense English, for it is of course based on Peter Shaffer's acclaimed play Equus, and its ...

... THE CANTERBURY TALES, adapted by Phil Woods from the stories by Geoffrey Chaucer. Haymarket, Leicester, to August 30. GYPSY, book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Gaiety, Dublin from July 31. Cast: Rosaleen Linehan, Jacinta Whyte, Godfrey James, Carmellia Whyte, Antoinette Whyte, Niamh Flanagan, Joe Conlan, Conor Evans, Brian McGrath, Phyl Taylor, Gen ...