... this Doll's House, directed by Kjetil Bang- Hansen and starring Anneke von der Lippe as Nora, is a museum piece, but one that speaks directly to the 21st century. Bang-Hansen and von der Lippe's only updating is to the depths and nuances of Nora's personality ...

... is a convincing hunk, and Marie Beazley (Sandy) captures the goody-two-shoes qualities of the high school newcomer without speaking more than a few lines. Live Business director Debbie Blackett produced the show, with Gayle Thomas as choreographer, and ...

... keep the pace tight, despite quality gags such as the Cockney linguaphone. It is unusual for a London comedian to knowingly speak of Scottish ex-cons, such as Jimmy Boyle, and he captures the essen tial similarities of Edinburgh's Leith area and Glaswegian ...

... point at which a self-sufficient community is wrenched into the modem world of business and mass-communication. Crudely speaking, the play contrasts the lives of the last islanders with their varyingly successful ability to relocate to Southampton. Harris ...

... company etch minimal dance forms in a twilight world of slow, undulating music. The three dances in this spring tour programme speak of a twilight world and demand intense concentration. w Openwork, a trio in which Pencak is joined by Clare Hughes and Trevor ...

... belting out songs to his own backing tracks while standing, mike in hand, and is shrewd enough tc know when to let the piano speak on its own. It is good to see a youngei musician working with an oldei generation, taking the songs oi another era through ...

... disdain because of their ugliness, through the naivety of childhood and the revenge of old age. Also the ability of children to speak their minds and the fun the elderly have knowing full well they have told the same story 50 times, watching their victims' ...

... Millionaire? spoof, the first of a clutch of 'topical' swipes whose shelf life expired long ago. French talks in Lock, Stock-speak and just when you expect the obvious Big Brother skit the obvious Big Brother skit duly arrives. Better are the revue-style ...

... there were no phrases, no words nothing that was difficult to move over. To prove it. she began to read: The wife of Bath speaks in Brixton Market From Chaucer in the 14th century, the first edition of All the Rage (R4, from Sunday, October 29) skipped ...

... and I spent the entire afternoon corralling him about the stage and giving him the odd nudge and sharp look when he tried to speak over my lines. He's not a very good Alan Bennett, actually not nearly as good as Nick. THE LIGHT PROGRAMME ...

... department deals with more than 1,000 telephone queries each day, but some people take it all for granted. Offered the chance to speak with the owner, one recent caller responded: Do you mean someone owns Spotlight? I thought it was just there. The search ...