... Caesar's artists cash blow By HELEN GOULD ARTISTS owed fees for scrapped dates at Caesar's Palace in Luton were warned this week that they are unlikely to see a penny of their cash. Club proprietor Clive Preecc is scuttling his company, Starbar Ltd, at the end of this month, beating a winding up petition by a Luton staff agency by one week. Accountants are currently assessing the size of the ...

... Saucy show angers vicar AN OUTRAGED Welsh vicar is urging his flock to boycott a sell-out show by a sexy Chippendale-style dance troupe because he believes it will corrupt their morals. The Reverend Jeff Waggett, chaplain of the Blacngwynfi branch of the Royal British Legion, is calling for a ban on the show by the Swansea-based Centaur group, booked for the Afan Valley Legion club for January ...

... New launch for Jackson BLACKPOOL talent show host and organiser Bernard Jackson is to launch a new competition in South Shore. For the past seven years he has fronted the popular Star Search con test in the Theatre Bar at the Queens Hotel, South Promenade and fea tured in a Channel 4 special on some of the older and odder acts from the annual out of season event. Now he is moving to the Gables ...

... The Hay And The Red Poppies BLOOMSBURY THEATRE ANYONE not consulting their programme before the start of The Hay And The Red Poppies could be forgiven for thinking that they were watch- in? a rhoreoffranhv bv lanet Smith. The non-urgent, linear fluidity, which became the predictable hall mark of Smith's company- before the Arts Council turned sour on her and withdrew its financial support was ...

... Postmortem On The Bolshoi ALBERT HALL AS the postmortems are launched to determine the effectiveness of the sea son by the Bolshoi Ballet at the Albert Hall, and as the promoter Derek Block speaks with pride about the thousands of people who have flocked to see the company (and as he and the company count their profits and speak of another such season within the next five years), it is time ...

... Twelfth Night CANTERBURY THE GULBENKIAN Theatre, part of the campus of Kent University, Canterbury, is becoming the new venue for some of the most imaginative small productions in today's theatre. The latest presentation of Shake speare's Twelfth Night by the Show of Hands Company, under its artistic director Michael Dray, emerges as a feast of delight. Subtitled What You Will the play carries ...

... Amadeus CHELTENHAM IF ANYTHING the present seasonal offerings from the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham suffer by comparison. On Golden Pond, Shirley Valentine and now Amadeus have all been on the big screen in recent times. If comparisons are odious this is particularly true of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, here directed by Martin Houghton in comprehensively fine style. While cinema enlarges the capac ...

... High hopes for Caesar's second relaunch By HELEN GOULD ILL-fated Luton nightclub venue Caesar's Palace is to have its second relaunch within three months, re-opening on February 12 with a new board of directors. Its former proprietors, Starbar Ltd, headed by Pembrokeshire entre preneur Clive Preece, went out of business trailing debts of around £450,000, including £250,000 to investors and £25 ...

... Hypnotists in TV war By HELEN GOULD HYPNOTIST pals, Andrew Newton and Paul McKenna, have been caught up in a bitter hypno-war between rival independent television companies. Newton took McKenna, his long time friend and rival, by surprise when he launched a stinging attack accusing him and other hypnotists of stealing routines from his show. But this week it emerged that the row is an ...

... You're not wrong there, winners! STAGE readers who took part in our Trelawny of the Wells contest broke all records with not one wrong competition answer among a bumper crop of postcards. Five pairs of first class seats to the all star show featuring, among others, Michael Hordern and Helena Bonham Carter go to contestants in London, Birmingham and the West Country. Winners are: P. Edwards of ...

... The Nutcracker GLASGOW UNLIKE many choreographers who have imbued The Nutcracker with an adult psychology, the late Peter Darrell retained the ballet's simple scenario for his production for the Scottish Ballet, and with it, its magical essence. The ballet, which is about a young girl's dream, works best when the roles of Clara and her friends are played by children, as opposed to shorter ...

... Kadamb OEH TO OPEN the British Festival Vivarta at the QEH (performances also at The Place, and in Leicester and Bristol), director Simon Dove chose to fly the Kumudini Lakhia Company over from Bombay to present a four-item gramme called Kadamb. Lakai's choreography blended tra ditional Kathak dance with experiment (fairly modest in terms of what we are used to seeing), and the Bombay ...