... 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 ...

... Busker to stand for election SHAKY Jake, the busker accused of being a lawbreaker, wants to become a law maker by standing for Parliament in the General Election. Jake, alias John Amo, decided dras tic measures were needed after he beat a rap for wilful obstruction in Harrow only to find himself charged again days later. I have decided to stand as a candi date for the General Election to ...

... Animal magic is on the decline By BRIAN ATTWOOD TRADITIONAL animal magic acts could soon be an extinct species because public and professionals are turning against the use of animals on stage, says a leading pressure group. The Captive Animals' Prot ection Society claims the number of illusionists using rabbits, birds and other creatures is on the decline, thanks to appeals to trade ...

... Potter hits out at showcases LEADING club boss Bob Potter has blasted traditional variety showcases claiming they waste valuable time on entertainers who are no-hopers. He says the old style talent show has been done to death and lack of televi sion coverage has meant a decline in the number of big names emerging who are able to fill a major club. Potter, managing director of Surrey's ...

... MCPS in new shake-up By HELEN GOULD THE Mechanical Copyright Protection Society is undergoing a radical internal shake-up to improve administration and co-ordination of its royalty collection system. It currently operates 1 1 licensing schemes in the UK which, until now, have been encouraged to develop and function independently of each other. It is hoping that the reorganisations will aid its ...

... Resort's starship enterprise A TOP Blackpool nightspot has been zapped into oblivion by a futuristic fantasy game. Shades, the Central Promenade Coral Island complex, is being replaced by a £300,000 live action laser game which will operate all year round up to 14 hours a day at the height of the season. The twin level Quasar arena boasting two fully themed fantasy castles will take up to 40 ...

... Compagnie Schmid-Pernette THE PLACE CONTRIBUTIONS from three French choreographers made up this programme, and though its two works were quite different they had in common ideas about expressing psychlogical states through contrasting dynamics. Initially, it seemed that Les Ombres Portees, danced and ographedby Nathalie Pernette and Andreas Schmid, was just going to fall into dance's ...

... Die Walkure SCOTTISH OPERA SCOTTISH Opera's slow progress through Wagner's Ring Cycle almost grinds to a halt with Die Walkure. Richard Jones' production, designed by Nigel Lowery, is more performance art than theatre. The set is a series of colourful, stylised back drops and cloths, enor mous murals which fly out to reveal layer upon layer of visual symbolism. Attractive in themselves, they ...

... Not so naughty, but still ruffling a few feathers LEEDS Swan Lake CERTAINLY Northern Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake is to be recommended, though not for the reasons cited in the tabloid press or for producer Christopher Gable's impassioned justifications in the printed programme. Instead, what its hybrid mixture of styles causes us to do is to re- examine our feelings about this bal let and the ...

... Knocked into shape by the mystery man QEH Requiair IT IS Laurie Booth's concern with conceptual change, and his creation of unique spatial and temporal structures, that mark him out. In his newest work, Kequiair, he has evolved a strange mystical world of shapes and symbols, through which sometimes ideas are clearly communicated, as when bodies bal ance against bodies so that the sup port is ...

... Don Pasquale CARDIFF DONIZETTI'S most popular comic opera--and his final great success before descent into madness and early death--is an ideal work for modestscale presentation. Small cast, simple sets and chamber orchestra can combine to stage a light-hearted ful entertainment in an intimate atmo sphere while maintaining high stan dards in a rigorous touring schedule. This was admirably ...

... Konigskinder (Humperdinck) ENO HUMPERDINCK'S Konigskinder, which triumphed at its New York premiere (attended by Puccini) in 1910, is an extraordinary work. It tells of a Goosegirl and her Prince, whom the citizenry of Bellabrun deprive of their inheritance and drive out of town to die, impoverished and hungry, in the icy winter. Ihe stupid and selfish reject the good. ENO's new produc tion ...