... tainer cries off Sophie suggests they make their own fun by acting out Dahl's story. Which means Dad becomes BFG and has to speak seriously some gob- bledygook words like splinkers, sewarzeumber, and dinghummer and always makes rude stomach nois es after ...

... Isadora, had no need of slavish emulation of her prede cessor; instead she allowed her musical response and femininity to speak for themselves and you got the impres sion that each performance would show a deeper understanding of the essence of Isadora ...

... taken by Annie Orwin whose full- bodied melodious voice is heard to fullest advantage in a ballad which asks Let the Crystal Speak. Tommy Cannon, who is blind is good as Vincent, a man with the soul of a poet, while Mark Rowlands a 17 year old who is a ...

... Barry Foster as the dangerously deranged King, in thrall not only to his spurious philos ophy but to the woman to whom he speaks on the telephone, Tony Doyle as the oddly threatening patient and Ruth McCabe as the brave and lovely Mona. Peter Hepple 5^K ...

... In the Swan theatre, this new text receives a gripping production from director Adrian Noble and an RSC cast whose tine speaking should lay to rest for some time any doubts about the Company's voice work. Together, the plays are seen as a lengthy debate ...

... in the part of the lovelorn hidalgo poet, he waved his sword and declaimed with a diction so theatrical that even French-speaking listeners understood one word in ten and the famous lyrical passages, as dear to the French as Shakespeare is to us, went ...

... script does not dig too deep for any genuine philosophical rel- evations despite the grimacing tips on life and love when love speaks to you, listen, even though his voice may shatter your dreams so we can not really learn anything about Elvis, but the sense ...

... Orton speaks louder than words Colchester What The Butler Saw NOT everyone enjoyed this Mercury theatre production as much as I did. Many people appreciated the Ortonesque humour and the quaint, pedantic language as well as the acting while others simply ...

... has to record, regretfully, that Shakespeare's great tragedy only occasionally flickers into life here. Christopher Toba, speaking the lines with a thick but unidentifi able accent that suggests that English is not Othello's mother tongue, gives a most ...

... The responsibility of most of the swift moving production rests on the young shoulders of Philip Glenister as Oedipus, who speaks the verse with clari ty, forcefully displaying the hubris that is his downfall. Katherine Rogers is a grief rid den Iocasta ...

... best to forget the insidious sound of bagpipes. The dialogue is sparse and point less, ranging from the single syllogism to speaking in unison, with one partic ularly diverting argument which pro ceeds in the manner of a round. Such wilful obscurantism may ...

... Marina, who has cared for the family through the increasingly lean years and whose weatherbeaten face and sagging posture speak volumes on their own account. In the cases of Ian McKellen and Antony Sher we expect outstanding portrayals and we get them ...