... Don't panic say receivers Artists' fees 'safe until the end of summer' By HELEN GOULD ENTERTAINERS and agents working for collapsed Holimarine and Pennant camp group, Mowat, were this week warned not to panic after receivers guaranteed pay until the end of the summer season. Leisure and property giant Mowat, which has 1 1 holiday camps in English coastal resorts, went into receivership last ...

... Scard calls for UK taping levy By BRIAN ATTWOOD TRADE minister Edward Leigh should push for a British levy on home taping ahead of forthcoming European Community legislation, Musicians Union chief Dennis Scard has demanded. The MU general secretary says he welcomes the community's draft plan, unveiled this month, to introduce a uniform charge for consumers in all 1 2 member states. Statistics ...

... Chinese acrobats take a tumble back home THE very cream of Chinese acrobats are all in Britain at the moment and the folk? back home are not too happy about it, according to reports in The China Daily newspaper. While the Chinese State Circus opens this Saturday (September 19) in the Boddingtons Manchester Festival of Arts and TV, back in China a ma)or international acrobatic festival in ...

... Saint Francois D'Assise SALZBURG IS IT a gigantic multimedia an installation or is it a monumental 'opera'? Well in this production it is at least 70 per cent of the former. The impact of the 50 meter wide installation keeps your interest alive through tne tour nours oi Messiaen s playing time, reter aenars with George Tsypin and James Ingalls as designer and lighting wizard have explored ...

... Gala Performance THE PLACE WERE it not for Cyril Beaumoift, who by dint of patience and perseverance made a record for posterity, the work of Enrico Cecchetti as a ballet master par excellence might not have survived. It was Beaumont who recognised the need for documentation of Cecchetti's classes, and who in 1918 instigated a regular pattern of work with the Maestro, describing and analysing ...

... A Shared Passion COLLEGE OF ART THIS play is seen by its creators, Edinburgh based Kick Back Theatre, as very much having a place within the contin uum of the fight against AIDS. It is cam paigning theatre, sited within the commu nity, engaging audiences on a personal level. That is not to say that it fails as enter tainment. It remains a credible play with an added dimension. Very much a ...

... Gatherings ACROSS THE MERSEY THIS title is very apt, in view of the play's many scattered themes. Though the rambling and disparate details often do not seem 'gathered' enough. The central character, a cold selfish intellectual, obsessed by the loss of his mother in his adolescence, uncovers a sense of guilt in his father for her death. But the ramifications arc many in this history of a ...

... Goddess SOUTHSIDE ADC are obviously a group of actors with their hearts in the nght place. The company was established as a response to the need for more movement orientated expression in student theatre'*. They certainly move a great deal as testified by the fact that sev eral of the company sport plasters and ban dages on their damaged limbs, and, during this performance, one of their ...

... Horn Of Sorrow THEATRE WORKSHOP THh eponymous horn is that ol the rhino, the subject of this marvellous fusion of music, theatre and dance by Theatre For Africa As with their other production in the Festival, Klephant of Africa, this is a feel good' play crammed full of humour, won derful songs and ebullient performances. The play i ne of the cast in the role of a likeable vulture. This seems ...

... I Poeti Del Rock THEATRE WORKSHOP TWO rocking horses on which sit two women greet the audience as they enter the theatre. This is the most comprehensible aspect of I IJoeti Del Rock and even this is completely bemusing. There is a funda mental problem here this company is Italian and we are, primarily, a British audi ence. Although this is a multi-faceted per formance, incorporating dance and ...

... Kate And The General THEATRE ARTS CENTRE THIS is a genuinely inspiring historical drama by Stephen Clark, performed with boundless energy and considerable stage skill by Nottingham drama students (Nottinghamshire Kducation). on the life of the founders of the Salvation Army, William and Catherine Booth. Richard Collins capa bly portrays the forceful, vision-driven General, urged on by ...

... King Of The City: An Evening With Al Capone BEDLAM THEATRE AN 'EXECUTIVE' in city suit, smart but a little flashy, finishes his phone con versation with his friend the Chief of Police, and tells us; Public service is my motto In his one-man tour de force, Robert Ciallo seems intent on vindicating Al Capone, to a certain extent. In doing so he concentrates on the forces that shaped the man, ...