... Relatively Speaking Guildford/Touring Alan Ayckbourn's play is a delightful slice of middle-class respectability which will surely rank as an historical record of the times when life becomes completely dominated by e-mails and Internet with digital humans ...

... Relatively Speaking Cambridge Ayckboum's beautifully-constructed farce of misunderstandings made his early reputation, and the details betray its age. It might have been more convincingly presented as a period piece than in the pretence that it is up ...

... Speaking in Tongues Hampstead Theatre Australia is a huge country with very few people -- the average population density is only 2.3 to the square kilometre. In Adelaide- based Andrew Bovell's 1995 play, such geographical facts are translated into a series ...

... The Golden Ass Glasgow Suspect Culture speak a very different theatrical language to their peers, and for this show--in association with the Tron Theatre and the Gorbals Initiative--they even leave English far behind, galloping over geographical borders ...

... Brian Friel's 1980 play at the Abbey Theatre. The complex work examines the moment of movement from a Gaelic-speaking Ireland to an English-speaking country. It is 1833 and the Catholic rural populace are educated in a system of hedge schools, funded by the ...

... stuff of theatre. And the opening section does seem not only promising but even intriguing. The father and mother are not speaking to each other, and the various levels of the set. with multiple exits and entrances, complement and emphasise these estrangements ...

... more than just root Roy Williams' vigorous new drama, staged at the Rep's Door Studio, in its West Indian context. It also speaks volumes about the generations, and is a sharp piece of social observation in a play that both critically and comically ...

... off at breakneck speed in total dark ness with thunderous drumming as the Weird Sisters camp- followers in battle fatigues speak the opening lines. But this is not the Scottish play. Given in modem dress, the location is any country riven by violent o ...

... Fawlty Years On Bury St Edmunds/Touring Andrew Sachs, arguably the best known Spanish waiter in the English-speaking world, is on tour. Together with friend, pianist and accompanist Victor Sangiorgio, Sachs has concocted a show which demonstrates 'a dozen ...

... natures of her clients, rather than action. But it is as if, by donning her costume, Morrey has decided to let it do the speaking for her. And because she does not wear it as if she is a woman intent on her job, but rather as a decorative extra in a P&rated ...

... through the lengthy piece with consummate ease, coping with their soliloquies in neatly contrasting fashion. The Boy, a non-speaking role, is played by Perth Youth Theatre mpmher Robert Phillins. Peter Cargill ...

... extraordinary at the same time. There are inevitably some very touching and funny moments. Both players, while seeming to speak and act simply, never theless capture the magnetism that holds these two apparently incompatible people together. It makes ...