... Great Legends St Helier, Jersey Elvis lives! As do Patsy Cline, Gene Pitney and various other music legends in this seasonal cabaret snow at the Ritz Club, Mayfair Hotel. Great Legends does not follow the traditional dancers/ comedian/singers style cabaret Instead, it is a chronological tribute from the rock'n'roll of the fifties to the present day, performed by very talented enter tainers ...

... Gerry Gowans Hill Street Theatre Gerry Gowans greets her audience in completely direct style. Even before it sits down, she is chatting in the manner of someone giving an especially chummy party. We are invited to help with deci sions on the vexing problem of how to start. I'll walk outside and when I walk back in I'm charismatic! In this vein she discusses her perfor mance, and there is not ...

... Shylock as the common man Edinburgh International Festival Royal Lyceum Theatre The Merchant of Venice To say that this production is pretty much what you might expect from the Berliner Ensemble is not to diminish its worth. Director Peter Zadek sets his production in a major financial cen tre, an idea seen before, but it is given new life here. And his mes sage is clear: forget their racial ...

... Acid Maze Marco's Alan is a straight drug-loving clubber in his mid-twenties. He has a devoted girlfriend and good pals to share his moments of pleasure. White enjoying the benefits of an umpteenth Ecstasy tablet. Alan (Steven Green) seduces his gay friend (Sebastian Cheswnght) and in the aftermath tries to realise the evidence of his mixed feelings towards both sexes. Alan's emotions ...

... Peasouper Bedlam Theatre From the Old Bailey to Oklahoma and twice around the Pyramids, the madcap trio of Rejects Revenge Theatre pursue their global comic trail to solve the mystery of the Tiger Pearl of King Ting. They do it all at breathlessly breakneck speed, and with constantly hilarious resui^s. Romance is added to the thrills as Mr WHks proves himself a true Victorian gentleman, ...

... Mother of Oscar Southside Photographs, letters and sketches of the Wfldes decorate the walls surrounrJng the aurJence. It resem bles an exhfcrrjon, and yes. it is part of a display which is at another loca tion, but the aurJence is supposed to be here to see the play. Mother of Oscar concerns exactly that Jane Bgee, a writer in the mid 19th Century, married Dr WWam wade. Then Mrs WHde became ...

... Julian Clary Assembly Rooms He's been away for a while, living mainly in Oz for the last couple of years, letting the furore over the Norman Lamont incident die down. Now he is back with a new. more intimate and honest show. There are no flamboyant frocks, only the merest hint of slap while Hugh Jelly and the lovely Russelr are no longer needed. This is Clary in auto biographical mode. He is ...

... Sweet Desserts Pleasance Those two old bedfellows sex and food gang up to provide the themes for this touching and funny adaptation of Lucy Ellmans novel about sibling rivalry. Fran is vivacious, laid back, successful. Suzie is an over wrought, overweight underachiever. The Mary and Martha of the modem world. The play follows them from sfuwbtihiig toddterdom to the restrained rivalry of ...

... Nick Revell--Liberal Psychotic Assembly Rooms If comedy is the new rock'n'roll, then Nick Revell is the new Van Morrison. In this remarkable show he catapults the notion of comedy into a whole new dimension. He opens up as though he is telling a 'Once upon a time' story, luring us into his life, introducing us to his neighbours, sharing his thoughts and neuroses and spin ning a yam of epic ...

... The Prime Minister's Son Gilded Balloon Mark, son of Thatch, buries his poor dead mum to the strains of Jerusalem. And after delivering Jeffrey Archer's eulogy with a superb, if obvious, lack of under standing, he remembers the life of the woman who did her bit for mar ket forces and made him what he is. In James Poulter's well written one man show, Richard Hallam is Mark. Besides possessing ...

... Mapapa Acrobats Pleasance Top lunchtime turns, this six man Kenyan acrobatic troupe are a colourful, joyous act more than suit able for all the family. Dressed in vivid yellow and black costumes, these guys com bine amazing acrobatics with fun contortionist tricks. To the sounds of Kenyan party music, we are treat ed to an hour of thrills, spills and skipping rope skills. Barefoot and ...

... Live worries Speaking only three days after he took up his position as deputy managing director and director of programmes of London Weekend Television, David Liddiment said that he had moved from the BBC back into commercial television with a different perspective. Working for an ITV compa ny is simple compared with the BBC, which has a totally different culture, saying I relish the ...