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Opera and Dance: Women win this battle of the sexes

... Women win this battle of the sexes ANN NUGENT on a streetwise Production Wimbi edon West side Story AMERICA, and the scene about the pros and cons of quitting Puerto Rica to live there, was given with resonating force in the London Studio Centre's production ...

Published: Thursday 07 February 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: No One Writes To The Colonel

... Hammersmith Studio came across as a vivid stage metaphor for much that is wrong and frustrating about twentieth century South America. In Acosta s own production with Bernard Hepton and Sheila Reid as the Colonel and his wife waiting for the military pension ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

EDINBURGH FRINGE REVIEWS: Pinkerton--The Musical

... Pinkerton--The Musical VIEWFORTH CENTRE ALLAN Pinkerton was a Scottish Chartist who emigrated to America to escape arrest and made a career for himself as a highly successful detective, so much so that he eventually ran Abraham Lincoln's secret service ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 22 | Tags: theatre review 

EDINBURGH FRINGE REVIEWS: Moira's Story

... and makes a powerful and disturbing play. The action is set in the future and takes place in the year 2020 and projects an America that has degenerated into a far- right high morality society where infertile women, non-Christians and ethnic-minon- ties ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 23 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Noel And Gertie

... Lawrence, but rather to bring to today's boards the spirit of the music He wrote for her and shared with her in Britain and America. That Hampshire and Petherbridge are attuned to each other in the same way as Noel and Genie comes over from the start and ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Splendid Mummer

... but as a leading Shakespearean player throughout Great Britain, Western and Eastern Europe. All this at a time, when in America theatres welcomed prostitutes to sit in the boxes, but Negroes were only allowed to frequent the gallery. In this one man ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Happy Days

... produced in the Gate Theatre's omnibus festival. To play the lead of Winnie in Happy Days the producers brought home from America, where she has lived and worked since leaving Ireland in the six ties, the distinguished Fionnula Flanagan. It proved to be ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Fishing Trip

... rafters. And the performances arc convincing, with Grimes himself playing the Irish out sider Stephen whose cynical attitude to America The Beautiful offends his hosts on vacation in the Mid-West. The piece is rambling and lacking in tension at the crucial moments ...

Published: Thursday 04 July 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Great Gatsby

... spell bound as the all-time love story unleased comedy, tension and tragedy set in the background of extravagant living in America of the 1920s. The audience had the benefit of a convincing American accent through out the entire play; the narrative given ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera and Dance: La Gran Scena Opera Company

... attend corsetted and trussed, unless they wish to tempt the gods of hernia. The new programme is once again hosted by America's most beloved retired diva, Sylvia Bills, whose anec dotal cooings and lethal asides admirably whet the appetite (the vodka ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Driving Miss Daisy

... a chauffeur. When the driver is black, a widower around the same age and with a bit of experience of racial prejudice in America's South, then the essential drama element of friction is already thick on the ground. The first eight years are the hardest ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Regional Reviews: A Scottish Reservation

... between two of the more unsavoury events in history the Highland Clearances in Scotland and the con ning of Indians in North America. In 1 81 3, a local laird took pity on some evicted Scottish peasants and used his inheritance to pay for their emigration ...

Published: Thursday 28 November 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review