... by 'audience member' Sylvia Soares, as a magician's curse will des cend if he speaks a word in his native Italian. But as tempers fray Lucius forgets and takes the audience to the bar to await his transformation into an ass. Rescued by a group of Glasgwegians ...

... as the House of York's last ruler. Here, he is a yob fuelled by youth and ambition whose psychotic quest for power is not tempered by a wisdom that could come with age. The bare space features only a broken mirror, its glass shat tered on to the stage ...

... Joanne's desire to make the school into a pioneering all- female environment, Brackenhurst turns out to be as bitchy, bad-tempered and biologically determined as the world it has tried to shut out. Not at all politically correct. Written with a vigour ...

... of conflict. Kate, an American psychologist, attempts to draw out her story, wanting to know why such terrors occurred to temper her horrors of excavating mass graves. Visniec and director Alison Sinclair rightfully want to make an indelible mark with ...

... accede to the figure's religious worth. Director Roxana Silbert has brought out three strong, controlling performances that temper and accentuate Brennan's intense creation of atmosphere. But she has not untangled what the play is trying to say. A reflection ...

... as members of a tank crew, though the other characters cannot avoid a degree of stereotyping. We have the officer, short- tempered and obviously near the end of his tether. Plus the stolid Cockney driver and an assort ment of younger men, who repre sent ...