... working all hours at her B B to feed the family, and miserable Nina haunted by her almost family, it's hardly material for a short story in You and Your Baby. Nigel Townsend's characteristically energetic directorial style makes for a powerful 50 minutes that ...

... reviewer being as enthralled as any of the younger members of the audience for this lunchtime performance. Based on the short stories of Oscar Wilde and Daniil Kharms, this production, staged by Sleeping Giant Theatre, relies heavily on masks, rather than ...

... of one is the proposition put forward by Showdown Theatre Company in its latest production an evening of international short stories adapted by director Barbara Richards. It's a happy combination for any audience who might otherwise find its attention ...

... soon back in action when his galleon is chartered to find a treasure island where there is a spring of eternal youth. The story includes interference from a space station, a storm at sea, attack by monsters, gangsters and pirates, and a woman who rises ...

... gradually the light from a single bulb illumines the upturned face of the solo actor, Jacek Zawadzki, who begins to tell the story of his life from the time he lost both his job and his young son and turned to drink, resulting in his death at the hands of ...

... doc tor after having been rejected by her husband on her wedding night and subsequently by her family. As she reveals her story, her history is played out in flashback on the stage. The great success of the play is the immediacy and reality which it brings ...

... HOW DELICIOUS an irony that Angela Carter--that restless and most uncompromising weaver of words--should have one of her short stories devised into a play that seizes mime as its main vehicle. Carter's characters are so often detached, seemingly fearless ...

... mistress. Kent has the no-nonsense approach of the practical actor towards her material, listening keenly to the ono matopoeic story told by the words. She nevertheless has a few bees in her bonnet, among them a profound and mystifying dislike of Christopher ...

... music was June 7, 1945, when Peter Grimes was given its first performance at Sadler's Wells. This play by Paul Godfrey is the story of its genesis and of the man who brought it about, Benjamin Britten. Only 32 years old at the time and a somewhat unlikely ...

... world premiere of a new play. This time it is Sunsets and Glories, by Peter Barnes, at the Quarry Theatre, based on the true story of the only Pope who resigned from office. It is set in the late 1 3th century when there had been no Pope for two years owing ...