... Land gives Warehouse new home By HELEN GOULD PROPERTY giant Land Securities is providing Croydon's Warehouse Theatre Company with a new home in a joint deal with Croydon borough council. This week the company, celebrating its 1 5th anniver- sary, unveiled plans to move to a new purpose built venue close to its existing building, which is due to be demolished to make way for a fresh devel ...

... Allen is named as Arts Council deputy WATERMANS Arts Centre boss Mary Allen has been named as the new deputy secretary-general of the Arts Council. Allen, who joins the council in September, worked as a professional actress after emerging from Cambridge University during the sev enties, where she had appeared with the Footlights. She performed at London venue The Bush at Shepherds Bush before ...

... Sexual politics are overrated SHAFTESBURY A Slip Of The Tongue WITH the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe, playwrights are somewhat tentatively exploring the implications, but it is clear that in many ways they have been caught on the hop. Many of them were inclined to the left anyway and in the past it was comparatively easy to write plays in which the freedom to enjoy social ism, as ...

... Bedroom Farce RICHMOND THIS comedy belongs to what Alan Ayckbourn calls his Bedroom Period; he has by now used up virtually every part of the house and its environs - by employing three bedrooms and four couples he puts the audience in the happy position of being able to laugh over the plexities of marriage, as it were, in a mirror whose surface reflects the mayhem inflicted by people con ...

... By Jupiter THE BARBICAN THIS Rodgers and Hart musical is the first of five shows to be presented this summer at the Barbican cinemas by producer/director Ian Marshall Fisher. All under the heading of Discover The Lost Musicals 1 992, this production can be seen every Sunday afternoon throughout May. Performed in concert, with the 1 5 artists on stage throughout and giving a 'reading' ...

... Men HARLOW THIS musical starts at a bright pace, with some nice touches of Irish humour and the arrival of several interesting characters, but unfortunately the show does not live up to the early promise. The trouble seems to be a combination of a weak storyline, a verbose book by Kevin McGlinchey, and a lack of character development of most of the pans. The programme notes inform us that ...

... The Dance And The Railroad GLASHGOW ARTISTS from Singapore joined with TAG Theatre Company to present The Dance And The Railroad, which fuses Chinese opera with a work dealing with the hardships and tribulations suffered by two Chinese immigrants who worked as labourers on the Transcontinental Railroad, a huge stretch of track, spanning the North American continent. It was before a capacity ...

... Closer Than Ever BUXTON THE INTERNATIONAL Quesrfest which is centred in Buxton opened with the European premiere of Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever which then transferred to the Library Theatre in Manchester under the direction of Roger Haines. The creators of Starting Here, Starting Now and Baby have written a sophisticated musical review that sits rather better in the intimate Library ...

... Babes In Arms CAMBRIDGE THIS is a largely forgotten musical, with show-stopping numbers we all know by heart. So why is it so rarely performed? The exposition is clumsy (a problem only half-solved by slide projection), the characters cardboard and the plot, such as it is, not easy to low. Halfway through light dawned this is a spoof on the backstage showbiz musical. But although the ...

... Kindness can work wonders in the right circumstances BARBICAN PIT A Woman Killed With Kindness ONE OF the pleasures in working for the RSC - as opposed to its predecessor, the old Shakespeare Memorial Company must be that you get to play not only the Bard but new plays and ones by his contemporaries as well. One of the pleasures of being a member of the audience at the RSC today is you ...

... SOAP PLACE LEST you had not guessed, by the time of Silvia Kaufmann's solo, in which the dancer is seen both live and on video, it becomes clear that the subject of Long Time Before the End (by Rui Horta) is the inner self. In this solo, the real Sylvia is taken to task by her filmic, wryly commenting. ganger for numbering fatness among her failings. Since she is incredibly thin, we recognise ...

... Between The Lines ETCETERA ALTHOUGH Alan Ayckbourn's debut in the field of the musical was inauspicious--he did the book and lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's only flop, Jeeves--his collaboration as lyricist on well over 100 songs with the composer Paul Todd at his Scarborough base has proved so ful our most prolific contemporary dramatist has claimed this musical activity has helped ...