... in a free expression, rather stri dent way, with lots of ringing cym bals from Motian. Then he put on his other hat, so to speak to show he is a master of the tune ful ballad, using the full range of the tenor saxophone. In such a setting things should ...

... in the well compiled two hour programme, superbly narrated by Frank Lincoln. The concert began with a recording of Novello speaking from My Dearest Dear, and in the second half everyone was invited to join in choruses of Keep the Home Fires Burning. The ...

... world of journey ing boats suspended in air, the clips of King Kong and Brief Encounter, the flashing images of computer speak, the Monument valley underworld. Enhanced by Wolfgang Gobbel's colourful and emotive lighting, they cohere effortlessly to ...

... Les Bubb is an artist of real skill, incorporating broadly- constructed yet inventive mime into an act that, even when he speaks, is neither one-line nor observation-based. Note, too, the always refresh ing approach of John Lenehan, who has been on all ...

... singing People from Funny Girl with a good presence if not an exceptional voice. Taking the piste out of each other, so to speak, were Charles and English in Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes about a couple's tiff on the ski-slopes. They did it with energy ...

... fashioned a moving, one woman play about friendship and _, :oneliness. As the play opens it appears that we are watching Scott, speak ing m her natural scouse accent, playing Garland and Day. Things get complicated later on as arguments between the two become ...

... thought there might have been some loss of power in his voice. His first three numbers. Old Devil Moon, For Once In My Life and Speak Low, had a certain tentative feel. But Bennett is an old master at pacing his act, wisely performed without an inter val. It ...

... duos in loving embrace, groups reaching out tenderly. Odile Reine-Adelaide clutches her breast with anguish. Larry Uoldhuber speaks with strong sim plicity of his mother's death from cancer, the whole company circles and weaves in deeply sensitive yet rigorously ...

... there actually is an afterworkl following his trou bled life. The alHJosnian cast han dle themselves well in the English-speaking drama, especially Mehanovic and Anadin Hebib play ing a manic, confident jester who deliberately torments John through his ...

... about. She wonders whether to use a mike or not: Without the mike I'm just some crap woman talking at the bus stop. She speaks mostly at the men in the audience. It must be unnerving for them, for her mate rial is not repeatable in print. It is the ...

... tions of Brechtian theatre, crashes straight through the imaginary fourth wall and into the stalls with his bab bling English-speaking Young Gobbo. Zadek derides the Rialto set as you would expect they perform drunken cancans, flounce about with personal trainers ...

... thev witty rapport and inevitable tensions are convincingly sisterly. Comedians as much as actresses, the gangsta rapping speak your weight machine, the weight loss self help tape, the 'crampax' tampon advert, would make fine sketches in their own right ...