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Theatre News: 'A fair deal' for orchestras

... deal at the hands of the new Regional Arts Boards (RABs) promises Arts Council secretary general Anthony Everitt. Everitt, speaking to delegates from the Association of British Orchestras in Liverpool last week clearly confronted an audience holding mixed ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 540 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre News: York funding crisis continues

... King, chairman of the City Coun cil's Leisure Services committee is reluctant to discuss the situation. He said: I cannot speak for the other funding bodies but the idea of putting up the same level of funding for the theatre to go dark does not appeal ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Mozart And Salieri

... any particular dra matic impact. There are no direct confrontations between the two, only brief encounters. The protaganists speak their own thoughts, Salieri's largely concerned with his enormous admiration for the younger man's music and his regret that ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: A Free Country

... Goodman as the neurotic Simon, while Miriam Karlin is drily funny as the mother-in-law waging her own war of attrition by speaking only Yiddish. Roberta Taylor, Jenifer Landor, Ian Vilarelle, Toby Salaman, Lindy Whitcford, Walter McMonagle, Michael Jenner ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Bran Nue Dae

... emptiness (that leads to drink and self-destruction) which comes from loss of culture. But Bran Nue Dae (whose very spelling speaks of Broome 's laid- back style) doesn't just recount such woes negatively; it offers through the road-movie adventures of the ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: No One Writes To The Colonel

... mem ory from the old man's military past, is represented as a harbinger of doom like the ghost of Hamlet's father. That non-speaking role is played by David Webber, who gives an equally assured performance as the Colomb ian lawyer with an English public- ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: Hamlet

... and a confident, sen sitive treatment of the soliloquies give his characterisation a convincing suture. His easy, rhythmic speaking of Shakespeare's verse is matched by the rest of the cast who also bring a wel come human warmth to characters which for ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 20 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: Loot

... classical portrayal, terse, brutal and inconse quential by turns, emphasising the dialogue as though it were Orton himself speaking. As McClcary Desmond Jordan who meets fate with wild-eyed bewilderment played with good spirit and excellent projection. ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: Classic capers

... Classic capers CHELTENHAM Relatively Speaking HOORAY! Something to laugh about at last. Alan Ayckbourn's exquisitely crafted Relatively Speaking comes to Cheltenham to start the Everyman Theatre's new spring season. 1 he play, which was written in 1 967 ...

Published: Thursday 28 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 25 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: Mrs Beeton's History Of The World

... with its attendant recipe. Nuggets of fact do emerge about Mrs Beeton's life much against her will they even relive, so to speak, her death. But although out attention is held all through and the laughs are many, we arrive really nowhere in par ticular ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 22 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: A View From The Bridge

... man, Rodolpho about to snatch away his nubile niece Catherine whom he loves with a sav age possession. His lingering touches speak volumes. Spendlove 's perfor mance is towering He has carefully protected her so that she may escape from that tenement hell ...

Published: Thursday 07 March 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: 22 | Tags: theatre review