... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... PURCELL ROOM Julyen Hamilton IN his Song In Two Sets, the British choreographer and dancer Julyen Hamilton, who lives in Amsterdam and operates as a European peripatetic, provided one of the most thought provoking programmes of the entire Dance Umbrella. Working as a lone dancer he set up an exchange of ideas with Becke Hinnerson, a Swedish musician that was free-flowing and imbued with a ...

... Staff offers free service to keep venue open By HELEN GOULD STAFF at a remote west country arts centre have agreed to work without pay for the summer season in a bid to keen the venue open. Sterts Arts and Environmental Centre on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall is doomed to closure unless long-term funding is found before the end of the summer. The rural venue, established six years ago with the assis ...

... Royal victory as surplus cash rises By HELEN GOULD PLYMOUTH Theatre Royal has scored a remarkable financial victory, reporting the biggest surplus in its ten year history. Audiences rocketed by more than 50 per cent to a record 400,000 dur ing 1 99 1 boosting box office takings by almost a quarter, to £3 million. The turnaround has left the theatre with a trading surplus of more than £232,500, ...

... Manager back on the right track after ordeal A rUKivYfcK Aberystwytn Arts centre man ager who won substantial damages from a bank after attempting suicide when he was wrongly suspected of stealing nearly £3,000 has landed a top Gwynedd council job. Hugh Edwin Jones was exonerated after the money was found at the Aberysrwyth branch of the National Westminster Bank more than two years after it ...

... Worthing puts block on the circus THE CIRCUS will not be visiting Worthing this year but the sudden change in the local council's policy on this vexed issue has not emerged as the result of found moral scruples but, rather, because of falling box-office receipts, writes Eric Joyce At their recent meeting, members of Worthing Borough Council made it clear that their deci sion not to go ahead ...

... Hands on CROSS Hands near Carmarthen could be getting a major new entertainment complex. A £100,000 plan has been unveiled to transfer the rundown public hall into a theatre/cinema with leisure facilities. ...

... The Pilgrims To Mecca WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA GLUCK is most commonly associated with the sober side of opera, yet he tried his hand at comedy too and, for the year devoted to exploring Mozart, Wexford put on a Gluck opera that clearly inspired Die Entfuhrung. The story used by Gluck in La Rencontre imprevue ou Les Pelerins de la Mecque is that of an escape from a harem and an all-forgiving ...

... Ballet du Rhin SADLER'S WELLS THE ARRIVAL of the unknown Ballet du Rhin has turned out to be a surprise delight, with a second programme of 20th century works complementing the earlier 18th century Fille mal gardee, and underlining the quality and versatility of the dancers. Most successful was Oscar Araiz's Carnival of the Animals, with its style of anthropomorphism, and of non sense yielding ...

... Cadbury banks on sweet panto rewards PANTOMIME dames could find themselves the centre of the great chocolate sales war as rival confectioners turn to the pantomime stage to plug their products. Cadbury Ltd is backing a series of 41 shows up and down the country, offering free sweets for the atres to sell or raffle, and for dames to hand out to kiddies as pan of the action. It is the fourth ...