... audience young and old working-in some fine musicianship and wearing his over-thc-top costumes with aplomb. His theme of Don't speak to strangers was drummed home to young audiences, even to com posing a house song to put it over. Contemporary with him is ...

... Montgomery, sleek and predatory in flowing chiffon, establishes the character of Beverly with the first few words that she speaks. Her pettiness and natural bitchiness is expressed not only in her rather vulgar provincial drawl but in every gesture and ...

... exists within one timescale. No one can escape the past or the future and this manifests itself all the time via the senses, speaking of which this audience must have been moved by modern day reflections of the stock market crash of the thirties, tumbling ...

... Relatively Speaking NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME RELATIVELY Speaking, Alan Ayckboum's first West End hit way back in 1967, so impressed Noel Coward that he sent the young playwright a congratulatory telegram. Plays falling into this spot in the time warp often ...

... The Frankenstein Project CAMBRIDGE AT THE age of 19, Mary Shelley wrote a story, hoping to 'speak to the mys terious fears of our nature.' Her own mother had died giving birth to her, her baby girl had died and she had been laid in an icebath to stop ...

... Sultana swings the changes for true love's sake SADLER'S WELLS La Gran Sultana BEING persona non Grata (non Spanish-speaking) I joined the throng of Anglo- Spanish at Sadler's Wells wishing I'd tried harder at school. I he prospect ot a 1 7th Century ...

... two flanking warders. Kamel Hussain's physical expres siveness a body held rigid on the constant edge of violent eruption speaks of his inner conflict, while wait ing for him at home is his wife Carol (Ashley Christmas) and teenage daughter, Natalie (Amanda ...

... by- Dominic King was going to follow the pattern of Shire and Maltby's Starting Here, Starting Now the songs act ing, so to speak, as their own book, with moods being set by the music, drama and comedy coming through the lyrics. Alas, it is more like the ...

... from the hand some, young, affable, inventive, fund seeking, Dr Cukrowicz well played by Nigel Crooke. Again, individually speaking, Martin Carroll was good as the scheming George Holly, as was Jacquie Toye as Mrs Holly, both doing their level best to prevent ...

... Reynolds never allows us to feel safe in assuming that the experiences of her characters are so remote from our own in fact they speak more clearly to the audience than she probably could ever have imagined. 'Guilty of passion in a stale flat with a mad man ...

... founded the RSC at the beginning of the sixties the policy was to present Shakespeare in a full text with exemplary verse speaking that above all got across meaning, on a stage that moved on as far as pos sible from the picture frame qualities that ...

... finds an eloquent go-between who puts all her stifled grief for her brother and inadmissible love for her master into her speaking of the wooing poetry to Olivia. No wonder she is stirred, for sel dom has that willow cabin at the gate been built so fervently ...