... [out of town ABERDEEN His Majesty's Scottish Opera (2-7I ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre Diversions Dance Company (6--7) ASHTON UNDERLYNE TamesMe- Joseph And His Amazing Technico lour Dreamcoat AYR Gaiety Memories of Elvis BASILDON Towngate An Evening of Indian Music (31 10- 1 111; The Cspe Orchard 12-31 BASINGSTOKE Central Studio Master Harold and the Boys (4-7) BATH Theatre Royal JJ Farr BEDFORD ...

... THURSDAY, MAR 12 SWAN LAKE, music by Tchaikovsky, choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Royal Opera House. Man agement: Royal ballet. Cast includes: Cynthia Harvey, Jonathan Cope. Pro ducer: Anthony Dowell. Conductor: Mark Ermler. Designer: Yolanda Son- nabend. Production consultant: Roland John Wiley. Guest ballet mistress: Irina Yacobson. Lighting: John B. Read. Press: Amanda Jones, ...

... SHOWCALL WHO'S WHERE Basically Bavarian but sufficiently versatile to play a Swiss role DEL DE PAUL are at Cadbury House Yatton all this week no trace of fudge fingers with these immaculate musicians who milk tres bon-bon comments from audiences, hawing a picnic, may flake out with admiration (ShowcaH Vol. I. page 454) f Week: Mon. Nov. 30th Sun. Dec. 6th MICHAEL AlLPORT JENNIFER Cabaret Renz ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN His Majesty's Evita (16.11-5.12) ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE Tameside Funny Peculiar (30.11 5.12) BARNET Old Bull Arts Centre Concorde's Christmas Cavalcade (3-6) BASILDON Townaata Spy Society (3-5) BASINGSTOKE Haymarfcet Voyage of the Dawn Treader (3-19) BATH Theatre Royal A Month in the Country (30.1 1 5.12) BEDFORD Alexander Sports Hall Comedy of Errors (4-19.12) IF1ELD Kield Bam ...

... A NEW PRODUCTION of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta opens at the Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon on July 14, with Alun Armstrong in the main role of Barabas. Barry Kyle directs a cast which also includes Janet Amsbury, John Carlisle and Phil Daniels. THAT SUMMER, a new play by David Edgar, opens at Ham- stead Theatre on July 10, with Michael Attenborough directing and Oliver Cotton, Mick Ford ...

... ANDREW (ANDY) HAY, previously associate director at the Playhouse, j Nottingham, has been appointed artis- tic director of the Octagon, Bolton and has already taken up his post. ELLIS JONES has been appointed director of productions of the Keswick- based Century Theatre for the summer season and autumn tour. JOHN STRUTHERS, from the Brew- house, Taunton, has been appointed as new director of ...

... BRITISH and Australian produc tion houses have joined forces with American and Japanese producers to make a major series about the world's oceans. The Blue Revolution, an eight-part series, is being produced along the same lines as the successful Living Planet. The most comprehensive documentary made about the ocean. The Blue Revolution is being produced under the auspices of the Mare Nostrum ...

... CHARLES MURRAY has been elected Chief Barker of the Variety Club of Great Britain, succeeding Harry Good man, who served for two years. Murray is a senior executive at Lex Service pic, managing the company's community relations activities. He joined the Varie ty Club in the early sixties. JACKI LANSLEY, a well-known fi gure in the contemporary dance world, has been appointed the new artistic ...

... [out of town ABERDEEN Aberdewi Arts Centre Snow White (26-28! AVLESBURY Limelight Nicholas Nickleby (27-28) BANG OR Thoatr Gwynedd Diversions Dance Company (27-28) BASILDON Towngate Amadeus (26-28) BASINGSTOKE Haymarket As You Like It (12-28) BATH Theatre Royal You Never Can Tell (23-28) BELFAST Lyric Players The Road to Mecca Whrda Hall ASC/NAT West Tour BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Wind in the ...

... ABBEY LAIRD HALL. BristO Square AMERICAN BUFFALO by David Mamet Management: Oxford Theatre Group (August 7 to 29) ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE. Chambers Street THE McCALMANS (August 1 2. 1 3, 1 4, 1 16,19.21.22.23) LIVING IT UP by Marie Wplson. Cast: Donna Smith (August 23 to 29) BEDLAM THEATRE, Forrest Road THE LOWER DEPTHS by Maxim Gorky. Management: Edinburgh University Theatre Company I August 8 ...

... PICK OF THE WEEK TONIGHT: Two Liverpool las ses go on the rampage and meet up with a couple of Soviet sailors in this week's Film on Four, Letter to Brezhnev. Alexandra Pigg and Margi Clarke are the two girls whose way with four letter words would make even a marine blush. Blonde, blue-eyed Peter Firth is the sensitive sailor who wins one girl's heart while Alfred Molina plays his less ...

... WORKING for the First time at the Royal Opera House, the West Ger man theatre director Rudolf Noclte is producing the new version of Mas senet's Manon, opening on June 2, with Jeffrey Tate conducting. Three American singers, Julia Migenes, Neil Shicoff and J. Patrick Raft cry, are in the cast with Robert Lloyd, William Dooley, Judith Howarth, Eirian James and Claire Powell. PETER WOODWARD has ...