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Play Reviews: It's literally near perfect

... to make his for tune, is a slightly seedy ne'er-do-well separated from the girl to whom he has declared his love. Eager socialist Madge has turned into an acidulous, resentful teacher. Vivacious Hazel, the mostjmmediately attractive of the children, is ...

Published: Thursday 13 December 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

... (Crass the foreman, in a good portrait of sly politick ing by Bob Hewis), or fight ing to change it (Owen the dedicated Socialist, his intensity well realised by Robert Mclntosh). But the quality which dis tinguishes the production is teamwork, the cast ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Days Of Hope

... great political, as well as military, battle. It broadly united all the left wing factions in Europe such as Commun ists, Socialists, Anarchists and Syndicalists, and was even a cause in this country, traditionally indifferent to what was happening on the ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: A Wing And A Prayer

... has befriended. She also sharpens her adversarial skills with sarcastic attacks upon her dourly trendy director son and a socialist parliamentary candidate who mouths pious platitudes. The mute Tom is clearly a surrogate son for Joan, and the scenes between ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: Play Reviews - Personal demons give bad karma

... Ballroom but whose life has been cooking and cleaning and duti fully caring. Frank Middlemass has the neces sary crusty Socialist humourlessness as the old man, Gary Waldhorn shows how guilt often acquires an aggressive veneer, Toby Whithouse as Eugene ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 549 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Success within a failure

... survivors at the time that Franco's coup succeeded mainly because the government's heteroge neous forces failed to coalesce. Socialists, Stalinists, Trotskyists and Anarchist battalions went their own way under fire and countermanded each other's orders. On ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 523 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

EDINBURGH FRINGE REVIEWS: Politics strike out

... national struggles, as the miners fight for their way of life. Bob fights to put people before principles without rejecting his socialist convictions, and family and friends fight to under stand and influence him. All the issues of working class loyalty and community ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 23 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Orin

... through much sadness. Saiji Matsuyama commandingly captures the complex personality of Heitaro, the deserter impelled by the socialist ideas sweeping Japan in the tur bulent First World War era in which the play is set. The 22 member cast show great versatility ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Bright And Bold Design

... part in Peter Whelan's new play, as does another element, the growth of an acknowledgement of the arts, allied often with a socialist political sensi bility. In The Bright and Bold Design we are in the Potteries, where some companies were viewing with each ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre News: Socialist arts celebrities attacked

... Socialist arts celebrities attacked By HELEN GOULD TORY peer and Barbican Centre chief, Detta O'Cathain, this week fired back a volley at celebrity Labour arts campaigners. Their party's proposed tax increases for mid dle income earners would backfire ...

Published: Thursday 09 April 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review 

ACTOR BILL OWEN (right) remembers his own beginnings on stage at London's Unity Theatre, as a plaque is unveiled by

... London's Unity Theatre, as a plaque is unveiled by Mayor of Camden, JIM TURNER, to mark the original site of the famous socialist venue. The Unity started out as a mission hall and was converted to a theatre in the late thirties by a voluntary effort ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1992
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review