... burst into exaggerated light when it modulates into a major. Hughes and Waldron return for The Listeners, inspired by the poetry of Ted Hughes, in which male and female repeatedly clash and make up while occasionally appearing in each other's dreams. ...

... Dogged look at life's lunacies BAC Dog John Hegley's latest one-man show is a mongrel affair of poetry, songs and stand-up. Although the linking theme is dogs, cat lovers should not be put off. It is true that canines feature strongly in most of the material ...

... sweet nothings, and deliver a jump- about frothy song like A Groovy Kinda Way, or the exultant Come Down to the Sea. With poetry and a little bit of comedy thrown in, there was a lot to applaud when the music finally stoorjed in the wee small hours. Alison ...

... ence in Bath, with McGough's long-time friend, guitarist Andy I ^M Roberts, in attendance. These ingenious reflections on poetry itself will be followed in the succeeding weeks by the poet's wry and amusing lines about heroes, happiness, life, love and ...

... Sylphides) is a timely reminder of the spiritual balm that the aesthetically beautiful may bring to the soul. To distil its rapt poetry, its purity of emotion, fluidity of gesture and movement requires concentration and control. The Kirov dancers have it ...

... onto a rear screen. TV cameras trained on the protagonists project their images, while the text, assembled from Apollinaire's poetry, traverses the screen in varied fonts and for mats. At one point ('Goodbye') words float away as into space, at another they ...

... though Campbell has made her play, she is hampered by an inability to get beyond recital. She has the measure of Dickinson's poetry and her often witty and pointed letters. But, rather under-directed by her husband Jack Lynch, when it comes to the telling ...

... Bob Goody's Bite of the Dog Pleasance Bob Goody reads his poetry. Not, it must be said, a fantastic premise for a show. Particularly when it is the sort of punk poetry that sounds like Patrick Fitzgerald crossed with Jilted John and performed in a posh ...

... peppered with wit as dry as the Kalahari, while the conscript's description of being sent into the veldt once trained is sheer poetry. If you are looking for an epitaph for the white state of South Africa, look no further than this biting, multi-layered mas ...

... Freddy Cannon, who has not visited Britain for almost 40 years. Johnny Tillotson proves there is so much more to him than Poetry in Motion. Many of his hits were self-penned, one of which, It Keeps Right on a Hurtin', has been covered by more than 100 ...