... Rhona Cameron Bloomsbury/Touring Fresh from her slightly disappointing, albeit mildly successful sitcom debut, Rhona Cameron has hit the gruelling touring road to play-- this evidence- to audiences comprised, for the large part, of her fellow gay women. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it is a little unfortunate given her attempts to break the lesbian comedienne tag, and when ...

... Harry tickles his darker side Palace Harry Hill--Birdstrike 2000 Championed by his peers as the natural successor to comic luminaries as diverse as Harry Worth and the Goons, Harry Hill has a lot to live up to. Happily his latest show, a back-to-basics return to the dizzying, stream of consciousness up style he had honed before television claimed him, delivers in spades. Where his previous ...

... English Literature--the Musical British Library Shows, films and songs inspired by, or based on the work of, William Shakespeare and many other distinguished authors, were featured in this final event in the British Library's season of Chapter& Verse--1000 Years of English Literature. Nicholas Parsons introduced a programme which began with The Beggar's Opera Prologue and Overture, and blended ...

... Disney On Ice--Jungle Adventures London Arena/Touring Feld Entertainment has cracked the ice spectacular yet again--this time taking us to the vibrant lands of the jungle where we meet some of our favourite Disney characters. Robert Smith's realistic set and LeRoy Bennett's stunning lighting easily draw us into the dense woodland setting where the action never stops. Rafiki, the wise mandrill, ...

... Voice of Musical Theatre 2000 Cardiff Before a packed audience at the New Theatre, a 19-year-old from the Isle of Wight, Laura-Michelle Kelly, beat off the challenge of young professional singers from all over the world to become BBC Radio 2's first Voice of Musical Theatre. Kelly, currently starring in the West End production of Whistle Down the Wind, charmed audi ence and judges alike in ...

... Chaucer comes of age BY JOHN MARTLAND Last week marked the 600th anniversary of the death of poet Geoffrey Chaucer, and Radio 4 launched its contribution to the BBC's Chaucer Season with The Archive Hour: Tales from the Archive (R4, Saturday, October 21). Presented by Barrie Rutter, artistic director of the Northern Broadsides Theatre Company, it traced the special relationship between Chaucer ...

... Good Old Days Leeds Artists who are equally at home on the cabaret circuit, or on cruise liners, were at the City Varieties for the third weekend of this autumn season. Peter John is a complete entertainer with many admirers. His marvellously expressive, character-driven comedy has hilarious punchlines, but it is the gestures and the long, puzzled looks that make him unique. Character comedy ...

... A bohemian alternative London Coliseum La Boheme The line between genius and talent is a thin one, which is why Puccini's 'bohemian' opera has eclipsed Leoncavallo's, in many ways a more truthful depiction of Murger's essentially tiresome and self-regarding Chararters Leoncavallo's libretto (he dev ised his own) lacks the economy and concision of Illica's and Gio- cosa's for Puccini. Acts I ...

... Don Giovanni Glyndebourne/Touring Graham Vick's production of Mozart's Don Juan masterpiece, first seen at Glyndebourne this summer, was thoroughly panned by the critical fraternity. And although it remains literally a pile of pooh, its new cast and conductor miraculously make irrelevant the perverse staging. The opera blazes into life. Conductor Martyn Brabbins' secure grip on the score ...

... Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal Peacock Theatre Television, music and the movies exert a powerful pull on the young, both as light entertainment and theatrical career choices. This can leave dance in general, and ballet in particular, trailing in their wake, a factor that has surelv insDired the ethos and repertory of this company. Since its founding in the early seventies, the Canadian troupe ...

... Masterclass in cabaret Jermyn Street Theatre Kaye Ballard One very damp evening recently, as six youngish singers were pulling out all the stops in their efforts to become the Voice of Musical Theatre on BBC Radio 2, a group of rather more mature souls sat spellbound in this tiny theatre while a Broadwav and popular music legend held court. Dispensing with an opening number on the grounds ...

... Si J'Etais Roi Wexford If I were king the fisherman Zephoris scrawls in the sand, heartbroken that Nemea, the young woman he has saved from drowning and loves, is a princess above his station. As a joke, the Goan King real ises the wish. Thus empowered, Zephoris rights wrongs, unmasks Prince Kadoor's treacherous involvement with invading Portu guese, whose attack he foils, gains advancement ...