... Resolution Series THE PLACE THE RESOLUTION Series of one night stands is a Place initiative designed to give opportunity to emerging choreographers. And in providing a platform for Catherine Willmore's Because I Say So it proved its worth. What impressed was the economy and directness of her four dancers and two actors, wno were snown in a starc set ting establishing an atmosphere of ...

... Optimistic outlook for Ayr Pavilion after council u-turn HOPES are rising that Ayr Pavilion will be saved from redevelopment, will continue to function as a venue for live music and will retain its potential as a theatre. After inviting purchase bids for the 80-year-old Pavilion, scene of the earliest Popplewell variety tri umphs in the town, the debt-rid den owners, Labour-controlled Kyle and ...

... Roberts' elephant walk escape CIRCUS entertainer Bobby Roberts is not to be prosecuted by Blackpool Council for walking his elephant on a Blackpool street. But he has been given a stem warning by the resort's public protection com mittee, which fears the animal could be a danger to the public. Roberts was reported to the council by animal welfare campaigners after he took three year old Indian ...

... Russian ballet is to go ahead By ROBIN DUKE FEARS that a leading Russian ballet company had called off its British tour have been dismissed by its tour promoters. Newcastle-based Now Leisure Marketing said that despite the political turmoil in the USSR, the British tour of Moscow's La Classique Ballet would be going ahead as planned. For a while the company's UK debut visit did appear in ...

... New threat to venues By BRIAN ATTWOOD PENNYPINCHING venues who force shows to take percentage box office splits will face costly claims by artists if they fail to provide proper publicity. The threat follows a court victory this week by a jazz promoter, backed by the Musicians Union, which successfully sued a midlands based local authority for breach of contract. Leicester County Court awarded ...

... Serving up just desserts PAUL CHAND devours Theatre de Complicite's revenge treatment RIVERSIDE The Visit DURENMATT'S vicious and highly theatrical parable of murder and greed is given the full treatment by Theatre de Complicite in Maurice Valency's adaptation. That rather dubious word adapt means in this case a richlv energetic and comical patina. Complicity patina becomes the over lay from ...

... Byzantine Flowers SYDNEY AT LAST the epic-poetic playwright and novelist, Louis Nowra, has come up with a play that is both domestic enough and morally grey enough to take a wider audience with him into his world of good and evil, myths and guilt about Australia s treatment ot its na tive people. Unfortunately, its world premiere didn't receive the staging it deserved from the Sydney ...

... Theatre Soap CAFE UPSTAIRS TAKE a mixture of the television series Whose Line Is It Anyway, charades and Twenty Questions and you have the basic premise of Attick Theatre's Theatre Soap at the Cafe Upstairs, the Bear and Staff Pub in Charing Cross Road. Described as an audience-led impro visation, this kind of theatre is totally dependent on contributions from the audience and it is they who ...

... The Threepenny Opera BIRMINGHAM DIRECTOR Anthony Clark and Musical Director Mark Vibrans set a very deliberate tempo to both music and dialogue. It's good for clarity every syllable of Brecht's social com mentary in the lyrics gets its full weight and attention, but it gives the produc tion a slow, heavy pace which is, ini tially difficult to lift. Marc Blitzstein's 1954 translation and Kate ...

... Musicians attack JazzFM over new music policy ANGRY musicians this week attacked London independent local radio station, Jazz FM, over its new music policy, which they claim could distort the public's understanding of jazz. And Jazz FM founder has Dave Lee has resigned from the board, fol lowing reports of his growing dissatis faction with the station's new direc tion. Changes in the style of ...

... Musically wired for a great sound ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Cosi Fan Tutte JOHANNES Schaaf's 1989 production of Cosi Fan Tutte is gripping almost despite itself, for the initial impression of Hans Schavernoch's design is not promising-- bare screens, except in the opening scene, virtually no furniture and a large pit in the centre of the stage, which is there for no particular reason as tar as 1 ...

... Me and My Friend SOHO POLY THIS IS a beautifully balanced play, interestingly enough, since it deals with people who have lost their balance in life. Gillian Plowman chooses not to include any unnecessary social or political criticism of the rights and wrongs of care in the community, but states her concerns bv showing us the weaving lives of four people who are helping themselves and each ...