... to Judy Garland. Agent Norma Kinsella is offering three pairs of tickets for any of the remaining dates on Jeanette's tour plus six promotional T- shirts. The prizes will go to the first three correct answers to the fol lowing questions: ?Who played Judy Garland in the West End production at the Strand Theatre based on the performer's life? ?Judy Garland's best known husband was producer ...

... In search of one's better self SYDNEY Money And Friends A NEW Williamson is always a good indication of where lie this country's morals, and how seriously we should take the playwright's strictures upon them. After battling with drugs and lawyers in the eighties, David William son's last play, Siren, simply threw up its hands and admitted that we might as well laugh at a greed that had got out ...

... Romeo Et Juliette PARIS LYON Opera Ballet's contemporary reworking of a classic piece, Romeo et Juliette, aimed primarily to highlight the contrast between two societies, by way of costume, music and principally, movement. Angelin Preliocaj, the choreographer, took ples from George Orwell's works to recreate the theme of a totali tarian militia which maintains a social hierarchy over an ...

... Hay Fever MELBOURNE THERE was a time, I recall, when Australian actors, called upon to portray an Australian character, were terribly self-conscious and most unconvincing. Now, many years later, the pendulum has completely swung the other way and they are frequently far from convincing when called upon to play an English character. Never was this more apparent than in the Melbourne Theatre ...

... Adzido Sadler's Wells FROM relatively small beginnings Adzido has become the largest African dance company in Europe, with a 25-strong company on stage at Sadler's Wells for its latest production Siye Goli, which has a text by Odia Ofeimun which tells the story of the people of the southern half of Africa over the past 200 years and is directed by Stephen Unwin, working with a dance company ...

... Get your gown and tickling stick here KEN Dodd has plans to open an Academy of Comedy based in his home city of Liverpool. I think comedy can be taught, says Dodd. Partic ularly if young comics have the proper enthusiasm. Dodd, who is currently set on playing every single theatre in the British Isles, believes that comedy is a science, just as significant as physics or biology. And he ...

... Ah, they remember it well That's not entertainment! GOVERNMENT inspectors must act now to crack down on Yuppie party promoters who make thousands of pounds as unlicensed entertainment agents, say angry musicians. The demand follows a complaint to the Department of Employment agency licensing department from a bandleader furious with firms who have exploited out-of-work players. He tipped ...

... The Orange Penguin THE ROXY IN THIS Oliver Twist fur Modern Times, the Artful Dodger isn't much different real ly, while Sykcs becomes a flash leather jack eted boy, desperately clawing his way on the bottom rungs of the petty crime ladder. I he targets however are new; Thatcherite values, Canary Wharf, the trappings of Yuppie cul ture and beaded car seat covers all fall before some brilliant ...

... A Hope For This World RANDOLPH STUDIO THIS tale of the ultimate marketing scam is certainly not a laughter puller but in look ing at the power of television, the massive worldwide arms trade and the human fail ings of greed and gullibility this made a powerful satire. A stark theme, it had a stark setting of a prison cell where Annie is confined for hav ing tried to kill Samson Gross. As the ...

... Ubu THEATRE WORKSHOP THE acclaimed Nada Theatre from France brings this incredible adaptation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu to Theatre Workshop and, with a cast of thousands--two humans and throngs of fruit and vegetables, it has to be seen to be believed. Actors Guilhem Pellegrin and Babette Masson are brilliant as Ma and Pa Ubu, he petulant as a gross delinquent child, she a plumed termagant in ...

... Brilliant Traces RICHARD DEMARCO'S GALLERY HENRY chooses to live by himself in the wilderness of Alaska. His solitude is broken when Rosannah stumbles in out of a white- out. This sudden meeting, the certainty that they will be trapped together for a 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 Flight Of The Snake THE CHURCH OF THE GERMAN SPEAKING CONGREGATION THE POET wars with the world but spout ing many idealistic notions for improving humanity's lot. But his target is humanity in the abstract rather than the examples he lives with or has dirty financial dealings with. Aiding and abetting him in his determi nation to lead a free life are his first wife Harriet and his second ...