... SCENE CHANCE Jackie Fletcher has been appointed as a lecturer on drama on stage at Edinburgh's Queen Mar garet College. Also new in the department is John Clifford, taking over as sub ject leader in textual studies. Cherry Cole, currently head of presentation at Channel 4, will be taking over as director of broad casting with Granada Sky Broadcasting. Reporting to the chief executive, Stuart ...

... NEW SERIES FRI, FEB 9 Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right London Weekend game show for ITV network (7 7.30pm) Presenters: Bruce Forsyth, Sophie Allisstone, Vicki Brattle. Bruce Forsyth in Play Your Cards Right on LWT T.F.I.FRIDAY Channel 4 entertain ment show (6 7pm) Production company: Ginger Productions. Presenter: Chris Evans. Executive producer: John Revell. Director: Stephen Stewart. ...

... ABERDEEN Her Majesty's Scottish Opera AYR Gaiety Pride and Prejudice BAGNOR Wataiaal Warts and All BANGOR Thsebe a)ind Fel Anrfal (13-14): Howard's End (15-17) BARNET OM Baa Aits Cam Where Silence Meets Sound We Dance (16-17) BASINGSTOKE tad-Hot Ice BATH Theabe Rayal Welsh National Opera DM* The Man Who Ate His Shoes (16-17) BELFAST lyric Drive On OM Museum Ma Centre Die Fat** (15-17) ...

... SNAPS Equity's newly formed Brighton and Sussex branch will hold its inaugural meeting at the Sussex Arts Club in Brighton's Ship Street at 1 1 pm this Saturday, February 10. All members welcome. MerseysMe remains Britain's biggest Lottery loser, figures from the Department of National Heritage show. The latest statistics reveal that the arts on Merseyside have picked up only £3.2 million in ...

... SCENE CHANGE Ian Blair has been appointed head of advertis ing standards with the Independent Television Commission. Blair will take charge of the team of executives, which enforces and reviews the ITC's code of advertising standards and deals with viewers' com plaints, from March 25. Loma Anderson has taken over as new adminis trative director of the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Previously ...

... Sweet Panic, by Stephen Poliakoff. Hampstead Theatre. Cast: Philip Bird. Kate Issitt. Rupert Penry- Jones. Saskia Reeves. Mark Tandy. Harriet Walter. Director: Stephen Poliakoff. Designer: Tom Piper. Lighting: David Hersey. Press: Genista Streeten. 0171 722 9224. Dead White Mate*, by David Williamson. Nuffield. Southampton to March 2. Press: Tracey Shaw. 01703 315500. Heaven By Storm, with the ...

... SNAPS I Prospective actors are welcome at the Club for Acts and Actors in Covent Garden on February 15 at 7pm. when the Catholic Stage Guild hosts its annual evening for final year drama students. Representatives from Equity and Spotlight will be on hand to answer questions. This year's event will be sponsored by Sheila Bennett, widow of actor Peter Bennett. Heavy smoking Barron Knights star ...

... Who's Where The following artists, listed in SHOWCALL'96, the visual directory of light entertainment, can be seen working at the following venues on the dates shown. For more information on these artists, I consult your copy of SHOWCALL '96. RACHEL ALLINGTON The Four Seasons, Dunholm, near Lincoln (16) PAUL ARDEN-GRIFFITH St. Gabriel's Hall, Victoria, London CARL BRENT Comedy Rock Express, ...

... Glue manufacturer Pritt has signed a deal worth £60,000 with Kazzum Arts Project, which has been matched with a £35,000 pairing grant from the Association for Business Sponsorship. The subsidy means London based Kazzum can put on an environmental drama pro ject called Sticking the Rainforest and take 24 resi dencies and 80 workshops to schools who could not otherwise afford them. Visual Action ...

... SNAPS New Jobs are being created at the Cheltenham Everyman with the intro duction of a four month rep season aimed at schools and the community. Hatrick '96 is being co ordinated by the theatre's youth department. Reach Out, and will bring three plays to the Everyman Studio before taking them out on the road. Clowns from across the world have gathered at a London church for the 50th annual ...

... SNAPS Ian McGanry, Equity's general secretary, is eligi ble to serve a third term should he so wish, union officials have confirmed. McGarry's re-election for a second five year spell keeping him at the helm until 2001 was confirmed at last week's meeting of the Equity Council. CTE has sold more than 16 hours of primetime drama from Carl ton UK Productions to American station WGBH. The deal ...

... ABERDEEN Ms Majesty's Dial M For Murder BAGNOR Wsterrral Wans and All BANGOR Theatre Barynedd Seven Days (23-24) BARNSTAPLE Queen's Black Chiffon BASINGSTOKE Ami Travelling Opera 122 24) BATH Theatre Roy* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Magician's Nephew BELFAST Lyrle Drive On! OM Masaan Arts Centre The Winter's Tale (22-24) BILLINGHAM Forum Jane Eyre BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Copacabana ...