... Wuthering Heights SHEFFIELD VINCE FOXALL'S adaptation of Wuthering Heights is an adaptation that veers between borrowed literari ness Isabella's I feel the concentrated essence of all the madness in the world and heavy-handed coarseness Joseph's Cold Comfort Farm speech about loving his sheep. There is, indeed, much of Stella Gibbons' rural pastiche about Jane Collins' production. Dour ...

... Industry faces the music CONSUMERS in the United Kingdom top the charts for the top buyers of music products in the world but, says a leading firm of analysts, the industry faces a tough time in the nineties. Business experts Coopers Lybrand Deloitte warn that, while the longterm future looks good, the first five years of this decade will prove dif ficult and performers could be the first to ...

... How the Chinese bore SADI FR'S WELLES Triple Bill NORTHERN Ballet Theatre's artistic director Robert de Warren is perhaps the most imaginative of our ballet directors at present, making honourable attempts to find new works by unfamiliar choreographers. Fu was made originally for the Hong Kong Dance Company bv Chiane Chine, and Ion paper its promise of combining elements of Chinese ...

... Belfast family's plea for missing singer THE FAMILY of a Belfast club singer have appealed to The Stage to help them trace the performer who they last saw when he left on a ferry for England. Janet Marie Conner has been un able to discover what happened to her uncle George Conner since he left Northern Ireland and has asked any one on the club circuit who can help her find him to get in touch. ...

... Arson guts troubled Midland club AN ARSON attack on a newly-opened nightclub has destroyed the building and caused tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage. Olivers disco in West Bromwich town centre, which opened about 12-months ago, was closed on the night of the fire. Two on-duty policemen spotted the blaze at the Victoria Street club and raised the alarm. Police say there were no signs ...

... Hypnotist claims council ban is 'censorship' A WORLD-FAMOUS hypnotist has been banned from Preston's prestigious Guild Hall centre-despite three previous stage shows there. Veteran performer Peter Casson, who has appeared in halls and theatres all over the country for many years, has become the second casualty of a council ban on this kind of act. Members of the environmental health and ...

... Show Fair 1987 BILLY MAYNE (second from loft), of the Fareham Hall, Fareham, and NIGEL STEWART, from Weymouth and Portland Council, look through the brochure for ShowFair 1987, in which both authorities are exhibiting. On the far left is FRANK COMERFORD, managing director of The Stage, which is sponsoring this major event at Bournemouth International Centre from February 3 to 5. with Stage ...

... II Pittor Parigino (Cimarosa) BUXTON BUXTON FESTIVAL'S second Cimarosa offering is Il Pittor Parigino, a more interesting piece than its fellow and, in the event, produced in a more appropriate style. The skimpy plot speculates upon whether the poetess Eurilla (Clare Daniels) will marry her painter lover (Alasdair Elliot) or be foiled by Baron Cricca (Gordon Sandison), himself pur sued by ...

... No more live music for top pop venue By NATASHA FIELDING LIVE MUSIC concerts are to be axed at one of Britain's top pop venues. The Rank Organisation have confirmed that Birmingham's New Street Odeon is to revert back to a full-time cinema. The news was relayed to stunned fans at the Magnum concert on March 10 just before the group stepped out on stage. Bill Haley and the Comets were the first ...

... Mecca to take Lyceum to court ENTERTAINMENT giant Mecca is taking the owners of the Lyceum Theatre to court in an effort to bring an end to its eight year leasing battle over the venue. The group's leisure director Ian Baker is demanding that Mecca's five year let be extended to 125 years as the price for a multi-million pound im provement programme for the Lyceum. The theatre's proprietors, ...

... Anton's troubles A BANKRUPTCY order has been made against the man who took over the running of Britain's first international garden festival site. John Anton is alleged to owe more than £lm to a building firm which renovated the waterfront site for his company Transworld Leisure, af ter it bought the gardens in Liver pool. Warrington-based builders Monks claim Anton, 49, who still aims to ...

... Adzido Sadler's Wells FROM relatively small beginnings Adzido has become the largest African dance company in Europe, with a 25-strong company on stage at Sadler's Wells for its latest production Siye Goli, which has a text by Odia Ofeimun which tells the story of the people of the southern half of Africa over the past 200 years and is directed by Stephen Unwin, working with a dance company ...