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... OFFSTAGE DOWNSTAIRS Two A LANGUAGE can sometimes tell you much about the attitudes and outlook of the people who speak it, and it is this which provides the opening to Ron Elisha's powerful play. Anna, a young German woman, asks Rabbi Chains Levi to teach ...

... authenticity of the performance. The players respond to Lyubimov's directions as only members of a well- knit ensemble can and speak their text, especially the verse, in exemplary fashion. It would have been a great triple victory, if only the National could ...

... toys that have letters of the alphabet spread across them. Suddenly a black man is discovered hiding in a big play box; he speaks no English but manages to convey the information that his name is Dux, that he is afraid of lemurs and comes from Madagascar ...

... r. And, largely in the background, there is the burning stillness of Barbara Jefford as the Mother, who scarcely needs to speak to make us aware of the tragedy that is about to overtake this benighted family. ...

... confirmed this week that she would in fact be appearing with London Festival Ballet during the company's Lon don summer season. Speaking at a preview of her new BBC television series, Ballerina, she confirmed that she will dance in Frederick Ashton's Apparitions ...

... degrees of emotion (or detachment) into their dialogue, they also know when to leave well alone, and let the powerful words speak for them selves. Pat Rush ...

... Owners YOUNG VIC AS MY companion observed, If he were my husband I'd want to shake him, speaking of Alec (Mike Kenny), husband to Lisa (Sally Edwards) and the still, soft, inactive centre of Caryl Churchill's play, around whom an awful lot of action ...

... for insects and animals to emerge with the smoothness of shadowgraph puppets- but depending on acrobatics and groupings that speak of months, even years spent rehearsing until the physical accuracy is understood to the minutest degree. The movement is enhanced ...

... poseuse of the first water, addicted to giving London luncheon parties for struggling avant garde artists and writers and speaking an intensely irritating baby talk when she wants to get her way with her husband, never sexually, one must add. When Geoffrey ...

... a way that makes one realise that he is the right king at the wrong time. Jeremy Irons, Christ-like in his white robe and speaking throughout with the soft voice of resignation, achieves an quietly convincing portrait of a doom- med king who almost gladly ...