... animals. Magic Circle council member and practising vegetarian John Gordon admits he would like to see an end to such acts. Speaking personally and not on behalf of the Magic Circle, I think the public is becoming less responsive to the use of animals in ...

... a centre for the hard of hearing, who falls in love with one of his pupils. Higgins, signs for the deaf and simultaneously speaks throughout the entire play. We are taken into the world of the deaf. In a world that we think of ai silent a music is revealed ...

... Randall and his company were the subject of an in-depth probe by BBC Radio 4 investigative programme Face The Facts last week. Speaking on air Randall promised to clear his debts. I have every intention of paying these artists, he said. Randall claimed he ...

... mention Escamillo's flashy copper pants! conjure a frivolous Spanishness. Ek's expressive choreog raphy compels his dancers to speak with their bodies, making his Carmen a visually vibrant piece, but one which penetrates the soul rather less than his masterly ...

... currently researching his parents pre-War stage career, said the theatre has been a firm favourite of his for many years. Speaking in a personal capac ity, Major said he hoped the venue would survive because it represented one of the last bas tions of ...

... the club, dashing hopes that the union could be made to agree in time for its move from Harley Street to larger premises. Speaking after the meeting Groves insisted his crusade, which began in the early seventies, was not over. His next scheme is to submit ...

... he was fighting with the partisans. All is not as it seems, though, as the boy is not a mute at all he mere ly chooses not speak. The director, meanwhile, was involved in the death of mute's mother when a band of partisans went on the rampage through a ...

... are turned on their heads when three powerful voices start belting uut the old favourites. With their verve and attack they speak for women everywhere, pouring out the plaintive suffering of the deep south plantations or the uncertainty of a girl's first ...

... the opera's first performance in London at Her Majesty's with Tree appearing as M Jourdain. Donald Sindcn's return to the speaking part of the Major-dome, with his funny line in outraged dignity, helped to lift the Prologue which always seems to have too ...

... which feature Surrealism taken to its wildest extremes, but, though bold and unusual, nothing seems to add up. Possibly this speaks of characters needing to escape from the constrictions of their own selves, and cer tainly they seemed trapped in a closed ...

... played by Catherine Escherly, contrasts tellingly with her Westernised sister an opti mist stuffed full of bright 'ad-man speak' and played equally well by Murilla Robson. While Alex, a wild eyed dissident, with a raked devouring intensity at the start ...

... long time gives both of them the possibility of facing truths they've spent their lives ignoring. The bareness of the set speaks volumes about the emotional poverty of Henry' s life, just as the exotic image of Rosannah in her wed ding dress is a foretaste ...