... [OUT OF TOWN ABBIOEEN Ma M|itv/ Scottish Opara (from 18) ASHTON-UNDBU.YNE Taiimiili Sooty Goes To Sea (from 18) BANGOR Thastr Gmfimdd The Erpinghsm Cacnp (20. 21) MIWET Old Bui Aits Cmttrm Nan ClanVs Lans (20-22) BASMGSTOKE Haymartat The Beaux Stratagem Horseshoe T/C BATH Thaatre Royal The Importance of 8eing Earnest BELFAST Arts Belfast Festival at Queans Lyric Summer Class (from 19) Whitta ...

... AGNES OF GOD by John Piel- meier. Belgrade, Coventry to Novem ber 15. Cast: Elizabeth Chambers, Anne Kidd, Lloret MacKenna. Direc tor: Alison Altman. Designer: Liz Ascroft. Lighting: Tim Aspeling. Sound: Tom Nordon. THE BEAUX STRATAGEM by George Farquhar. Haymarket, Basingstoke to November 22. Man agement: New Horseshoe Theatre Company. Cast: Timothy Ackroyd, Adrian Lukis, Beverley Adams, ...

... CANT PAY? WONT PAY! by Dario Fo, translated by Lino Pertile, adapted by BUI Colvill and Robert Walker. Crucible Studio, Sheffield, December 1 to 6. Management: Crucible TIE Company. Director: Phil Clark. Designer: Nettie Scrivens. NOEL AND GERTIE, devised by Sheridan Mortey. Sherman Arena, Cardiff to December 20. Manage- j ment: Sherman Theatre Company. j Cast: Stefan Bednarczyk, Beverley ...

... GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens, adapted by Antony Tuckey. Wolsey, Ipswich to December 6. Cast: Colin Hurley, Desmond Gill, Georgic Glen, Martin Crocker, Andrew Johns, Bryan Kennedy, Merlyn Miller, Anne Lcroux, Peter Yapp, Juliette Grassby, Gabrielle Hamilton, Brian Ralph, John Bach (Christopher Smith), Andrew DufTell (Daniel Edwards). Director: Antony Tuck ey. Designer: David Knapman. ...

... THE CLASSIC rumour that peo- j pie from Edinburgh avoid the Edinburgh Festival like the j plague has been Finally knock- ed on the head according to j the city's top fringe venue, The Assembly Rooms. For following an in depth analysis of credit card sales for this year's festival shows at the Assembly Rooms, statistics reveal that the three week theatrical feast is more popular with the Scots ...

... JASON ROBARDS is to appear at the Lyttelton for seven performances be tween February 21 and 28 in the Kennedy Center and Broadway pro duction of The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill. The first in the National's International Theatre 87 season, it will be followed later in the year by the Schaubuhne Company from West Berlin in O'NeUl's The Hairy Ape, the Royal Dramatic Thetre from Stockholm in ...

... THURSDAY, NOV 27 CARMEN bv Bizet, new translation by Anthonv Burgess. Coliseum. Manage ment: English National Opera. Cast includes: Sallv Burgess. John Treleaven John Harris i. David Arnold, Rosa mund Illing. Vivian Tierney, Ethna Robinson Shelagh Squires). Conduc tor: Mark Elder. Producer: David Pountney. Designer: Maria Bjornson. Choreography: Terry John Bates. Lighting: Paul Pyant. Press: ...

... LONDON FESTIVAL Ballet is giving the first London performances of Peter Schaufuss' new production of The Nutcracker in its Christmas sea son at the Royal Festival Hall from December 27 to January 17. On the opening night the principals will be Elisabetta Terabust, Trinidad Sevilla- no, Peter Schaufuss, Matz Skoog, Alexander Grant, Cheryl Liss and Christopher Bruce as Drosselmeyer. THE NASH ...

... Vivid apparel apparently appeals to Vocalist Actor DAVE MAY- BERRY who was an outstanding Pharaoh in Technicolour Dream- coat' and is now set to tour Northern Civic Theatres in 'Little Red Riding Hood' which, be assured, is not about a left-wing 4'6 Hell's AngeH (Showcall Vol. I, page 303) Week: December 1st 7th MICHAEL ALLPORT S JENNIFER DAVIO ANDRE LISA ANDREWS LESLEY AROEN PAUL ABDEN ...

... THE GIN GAME by D L Coburn Dixon Studio. Palace. Wcstcliff to December 6. Cast: Mary Wimbush, Stephen Lewis. Director: Eric Stan d-fee. THE LADY FROM THE SEA by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Michael Mever. Duke's Playhouse, Iwrwrra December 6. Cast: Bcv Willis. Jane Gurnet!. Jane Nash, Sharon Rose HiD. Pearce Quiglcv, Derek Palmer, Andy Whitficki. Mike Atkinson. Director: Pip Broughton. Designer ...

... THURSDAY, NOV 6 TONS OF MONEY by Will Evans and Valentine. Lyrtehon. Management: National Theatre. Cast: Polly Adam, John Arthur, Dane Bull, Simon CadeU, Russell Dixon, Michael Gamtnn, James Hayes, Barbara Hicks, Michael Simkim, Marcia Warren. Director: Alan Ayckbourn. Designer Alan Tagg. Costumes: Susan YdJaad. Lighting: Mkk Hughes. Press: Stephen Wood, 928 2033. THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA by ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN His Maiesty 5 Snow White and the Seven e Hi Lion The Witch and The A I. :?..:.._ H ;-seshoe T C BATH ThMtre Royal Dandy Dick Compass T.C BELFAST Art* Downtown Radio Presentation/Tickle t.,, i Lyric s Hippodr Wells Royal Ballet Rep 5i Rep Studio j BLACKPOOL Grand P'.kwck 3 6 ...