... Twelfth Night Barbican Twelfth Night is not challenging by Shakespearian standards. A few twists and a couple of disguises and Journey's end in lovers meeting. The interest lies in the director's conception and the quality of the performances. This version succeeds on both counts. Ian Judge's production exam ines the prevalent sexual under current. In doing so, it transforms a romantic ...

... Darker the Berry--Sweeter the Juice Albany Theatre More often than not plays with very young casts need, but lack, the steadying hand of more experienced members. Darker the Berry Sweeter the Juice, presented by the Second Wave Centre, which specifically develops the talents and energies of young people, is weakened because of that absence. Nevertheless it comes close to being vibrant and very ...

... Getting Over You Etcetera Theatre Club In a tiny studio theatre above a Camden pub just seven people watched three others perform Brian Woolland's new play. Sub titled When 1968 collides with 1995 it received critical acclaim in Reading and should certainly be attracting bigger audiences. The plot enters its collision course as failed sixties rock star Mick (Jeremy Milnes) is confront ed by ...

... She Devil Stamford Perestroika has released Russian playwright Nina Sadur's work to the West, and Raa's production at the Stamford Arts Centre of this first English translation, directed by Mikhail Mokeiev (director of the Moscow Arts Theatre) must be rated a modem classic. No overture in this tiny Georgian theatre just Brigid Kimak's simple set of farmhouse table and benches, later becom ing ...

... Safar So Far Glasgow Safar--a journey--relates through music, dance, and mime the saga of an Indian's progress, living in supposedly multi-cultural Glasgow. Though reluctantly arriving in Glasgow, having left a loved one back in India, he soon settles down, marries a Scottish girl and achieves the status of a success ful businessman, running his own factory. Disaster strikes when Angela dies ...

... Shared Testament Woking Created collaboratively by RJC--Reggae Jazz Contemporary--Shared Testament is a black dance drama designed to grab and entertain. Set to an effective arrangement of music drawn from gospel, soul, jazz, classical and reggae by Howard McCrary, the work traces the trial of the accused, played by one De Napoli Clarke. From the courtroom presided over by Leo Hamilton's ...

... Stravinsky programme ROH It was the work of simplest means in the Royal Ballet's all-Stravinsky programme that made the strongest impact. For Balanchine's Duo Concertant, with just a pianist, a violinist and two dancers, showed perfectly how dance can emerge out of music, and can then be empow ered to meet it on its own terms. Standing by the musicians (Philip Gammon and Yuri Torchinsky), ...

... New Act of the Year Final Hackney Empire It is interesting to compare the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year contest with the average mainstream event. For one thing, all the acts at Hackney are comedians, whereas on the mainstream they are nearly all singers. But more important is the fact that most of the Hackney finalists will go straight on to the still grow ing comedy circuit, will be ...

... Winning singing on the Hull talent trail Hull Talent Trail 95 A capacity audience filled Hull's Piper Club for the final of Talent Trail 95, in aid of the Lord Mayor's Charity Appeal and Cystic Rbrosis Trust. The Hull Daily Mail teamed up with Clubland Leisure and Tennent's Pilsner to stage the event, which covered three months of heats and attracted a total of 120 entrants. The organ iser ...

... Learn something new every day Seminars held at Theatre World will be tackling all kinds of issues ranging from the National Lottery to theatre architecture Running alongside the exhibition and the three performance areas at Theatre World '95 is a series of seminars and tutorials. The full three day pro gramme is designed to high light important issues and to provide valuable practical advice ...

... Swing Hammer Swing! Glasgow The time is the late sixties, the place is the Gorbals, synonymous for many years as the haven and starting point for the various ethnic communities, the Irish, the Jews, and the Asian population, but now in its dying throes. On stage the demolishers are well aneaa wixn ruDDie iieapeu di either side and a two walled living room open to the elements, the creation ...

... Keyboard Skills Ipswich Have you ever pictured the night of inquisition, evasion, fury, recrimination, fears, regrets and tears that would result from the wife of a minister discovering that her husband has been accused by the press of having an affair? Playwright Lesley Bruce obvi ously has, and this Wolsey Theatre production of her play takes us through such a night, revelation by revelation ...