... John Anderson; and Dean Park contributing men's songs like Mary Morison, Ae Fond Kiss and Red Rose. Johnny Beattie chose to speak the words of Willie Brew'd a Peck or Maut in an absolutely show-stopping performance in which he adapted his famed vari ety ...

... opinions. Perhaps Morley himself might admit to being sometimes guilty in this respect, although he cer tainly had no problems speaking his mind on this occasion, prov ing himself a worthy choice to deliver the Radio 2 lecture. In the final stages of his speech ...

... collection and a fair slice of his latest com pilation A Perfect Day. His delivery these days is more often than not more speak ing in tune than actually holding notes and singing though ironi cally he plumbs the vocal depths of Old Man River and Sixteen ...

... comedian Tim Pope is the anchor man. His fast-moving humour cov ers a wide range of subjects sometimes he does not even have to speak to make the audi ence laugh. Steve Stevens' and Mike Samuels' show-stopping musi cianship, interchanging instru ments with ...

... Layton Institute Showtime-Seventy Great Years Blackpool Opening with On Broadway and closing with We Are the Champions speaks volumes about the confidence of a production which, in a little over three hours, re-defines the expectations of a social club ...

... magician's saw, in between battling with tricky equip ment and each other. It's a mostly-wordless, car- toonish act, which speaks in an international comic language. One-off treats at this perfor mance included Earl Okin, a Fringe veteran, with a taster ...

... bewitches you for almost 100 minutes. A person lies sick on the floor of a hotel bathroom in a poor country in which no one speaks their language and remem bers why they are there. A rich, white liberal American, they recall a privileged youth, cut off ...

... rude to fans, self- absorbed, loud and vulgar. In between, Benson takes the audacious risk of stepping out of character and speaking in his own voice about himself. Starting with his very tenuous connection to Williams (as a child he won a Jackanory contest ...

... although MacLennan is scarcely extended by the script. The Last of the MacEachans, while shot through with Celtic pride, will speak to wider audiences. Perhaps McGrath is mellowing with age, even though, deep down, we know this to be unlikely. Phil Gibby ...

... who wears a pillow case on his head, but otherwise seems almost sensible, discovers the macabre solution His second story speaks of the unnameable horrors to be found in the cavity of a turkey. Fast-paced dialogue of lurid fancy spills out in a performance ...

... II is a one-man play which attempts to get behind the mask and into the head of a schizophrenic, to hear the voices which speak to him and understand his motivations. Such strong subject matter requires an honest and explicit per formance. This, Bourne ...

... for American high school students, the Theodore Roosevelt High School of Oes Moines, Iowa chose to present the play with a speaking cast who share the stage with a trio of actors communicating in sign language. Aside from serving two audi ences with equal ...