... and tricky play handled here with consummate ease and imagination by director John Abulafia. A fine set for such a small theatre (Kit Line), furnishes a sun-baked scene, sporting an upstairs balcony, while a couple of chairs and a table can instantly ...

... Sylvia CAFE THEATRE JULIA Tarnoky's anxious stares set the scene for Jane Thomason's com pilation of Plath poetry and prose and inject a glimmer of madness into the poet of the title Sylvia. Tarnoky succeeds well in her por trayal darting from eager ...

... 1916 ICA THIS waxwork display by the Pascal Theatre Company appears to have been staged by Madame Tussaud with dialogue by Dave Spart. It is difficult to gauge precisely what point it is trying to make, beyond the universally accepted notion that war ...

... from the famous Indian musician, Ravi Shankar. by the City of Birmingham Touring Opera Company. It reached the Leeds Dome Theatre as pan of a national tour giving the world premiere performances of the work. It is set in an Indian village at the turn of ...

... 104 million people are still treated like the Biblical scapegoat carrying the sins of the world on its back. The Tamasha Theatre Company's vivid and powerful stage adaptation by director Kristine Landon-Smith and Sudha Bhuchar of Mulk Raj Anand's novel ...

... The Mountain Giants EGHAM ROYAL HOLLOWAY College's Department of Drama and Theatre Studies never take the easy way out. This time, in tackling Luigi Pirandello's last and uncompleted play. The Mountain Giants in a new translation by Felicity Firth they ...

... personal favourite, and the play well deserves to become a seasonal perennial, maybe even outside the charmed world of fringe theatre. MD Mark Stewart attractively sets the pace as Court Musician, and Keith Strachan, the show's original MD, directs with the ...

... that is, presenting us with Wilde, under the name Sebastian Melmouth. giving a lecture on his life in a broken-down Paris theatre to raise the price of a few bottles of absinthe, in 1899 his only comfort. He comes before us as the epitome of ebullient ...

... too conscious of it, and it somehow throws Rena Down's production out of ba lance, resulting in a loss of conviction in a theatre that is not really suitable for the play in any case. All the same, it has its moments, with Timothy Bentinck giving a good ...

... white woman. Author Craig Dundas-Grant has kept things simple for this first produc tion by the newly-formed Struts And Frets Theatre Company; and yet he has allowed himself room for subtle manoeuvre. Julius and Katherine are procrastinators for a purpose ...

... The Bad Bohemian LATCHMERE PRESENTED by the company Practical Cats Theatre, Paul Cahill's one-man show about Jaroslay Hasek, the author of The Good Soldier Svejk, makes an interesting and intermittently fascinating evening. Part of the interest lies in ...

... Wallflowering SYDNEY THIS production by the year-old Canberra Theatre Company as part of the Sydney Festival is better than Peta Murray's play deserves but only just. For Murray has cleverly caught the but that was most successfully flying about Australia ...