... My Night With Reg CRITERION KEVIN Elyot's play is the first show to go from the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs to the West End. It won't be the last, but it'll take a good one to better it. It has been glibly dismissed by some as 'a gay Ayckbourn'. But My Night With Reg is more than the comedy of social manners you might expect. It's a play for today, about coming to terms with life in the ...

... Uwawi NOTTINGHAM AN AUDIENCE of gratifying numbers was treated to a brief curtain raiser, demonstrating how much the Salidummay company had been able to achieve in just one week working with local youngsters. The traditional song form Salidummay is today often associ ated with protest, and Uwawi (Lullaby) is a continuous narrative in a prologue and four parts which tells in song, dance and ...

... Dance Umbrella THE PLACE The work of choreographer Michel Kelemenis has a natural affinity with romanticism yet his style is modernist. Though the opening duet image was the least interesting of three works, overall there was a depth which, if it did not always engage the watchers in the way that Kelemenis might wish suggested a choreographer in transition, and one to watch. A ...

... Robert Hartford The Demon WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA Anton Rubenstein, pianist, academic and composer was Tchaikovsky's teacher. The Russians regarded him as more of a European on account of the influences he absorbed and his opera, The Demon, was a great success throughout 19th Century Germany and France. Now, it is only known in Russia and even there it is something of a rarity. Rubenstein's ...

... Tiebele and Her Demons LIBRARY THEATRE ONE OF the most striking theatrical events of Manchester's year as City of Drama was the visit of the Maly Theatre Company from St Petersburg which brought two stunning productions to the city. The company's director, Grigorii Dityatkovsky and designer Emil Kapelusch have been persuaded to work at the Library Theatre on the British premiere of Teibele and ...

... Brothers of the Brush GLASGOW WISEGUISE'S Scottish premiere of Jimmy Murphy's play bristles initially with lavatorial humour and acerbic wit before developing into more serious issues. The 'Brothers' are three Irish house painters exploited by their cost cutting boss Laurie Ventry a role played with cool assurance and sophistication, until he gets his come-uppance. Wages are low and Heno (Matt ...

... Dirty Reality NOTTINGHAM RAW energy sums up this co-production between Nottingham Playhouse and Black Mime Theatre. Directed by Denisc Wong, it's based on research by the company into the street and youth culture of Britain's Black community. Another step in the Playhouse's bid to redress cultural imbalance, the production blends young peo ple from the area into Black Mime's normal highly ...

... Shiny Nylon WOMENS PLAYHOUSE TRUST AS PART of its Life in the City ventures which aim to bring theatre to abandoned buildings, the Womens Playhouse Trust cast its eye on S Shed, a cavernous concrete warehouse in the Royal Docks, and made it safe for performance. Safe maybe, but with half of the punters huddled in blankets on the cold stone floor, and the more privileged in old cinema seats ...

... Laid Out Lovely LEEDS A BALLET dancer appears on stage, wine glass in one hand fag end in the other. She looks tipsy, she moves awkwardly and she giggles. She is Emilyn Claid and she declares in her movements that what we are about to see is not a celebration of blissful romance. Work.;,,, r,m the Yorkshire I nas used a striking isic and poetry to prou nng examination of our >>n- cepts of ...

... Irek Mukhamedoy and Company with Arc Dance Company SADLER'S WELLS THIS mixed programme by Irek Mukhamedov and Company and Arc Dance Company served as a focus for the multi-faceted talents of Irek Mukhamedov-- once star of the Bolshoi and now star of the Royal Ballet-- as dancer, actor and charismatic Personalirv. And the two best items also revealed him in a spectac ular new partnership ...

... Candoco QEH CANDOCO a company whose membership includes physically handicapped dancers in wheelchairs has already established itself as an ensemble of compassion and daring. Dance for this company is about people and trust, and the qualification for membership is sensitivity towards human beings. Whatever the merits or otherwise of mixing the able and unable bodied, the policy forces ...

... Recorded delivery Compiled by PETER HEPPLE WELCOME to a new jazz label, Topaz, from Pavilion Records, the people who bring us Pearl, devoted mainly to historic recordings in the classical field, and Flapper, which specialises in nostalgia, whether it be by solo artists or British and American dance bands. Topaz gives us classic jazz, all over 50 years old, because of copyright restrictions, ...