... The Death of Alexander Scriabin, to be broadcast on Sunday, June 16 at 7.30pm. It features Reed as the black magician Aleister Crowley while Russell, who wrote the piece, also directs. Arthur Smith is to com pere a charity bike ride from London to Oxford ...

... magician. Aleister Crowley. On one level, however, it fails to communicate much of the man him self, his character, motives, seminal influences, etc. Neither does it conj ure up the psychic energies, the mystic layers of existence, to which Crowley claimed ...

... self-styled magician Aleister Crowley, as bare, and in Snoo Wilson's play about the man, The Number of the Beast, at the Bush, there is nothing to remove my conviction. The play is weak dramatically and in story construction; even Crowley himself, while robbed ...

... Depravity ALEISTER Crowley is alive and well and taking the brightness out of any lives he encounters. As a study of black magic, Grant Morr ison's play leaves us with little more than a sense of over-sized ego and sadism. For non-conformists, all sorts ...

... (Simon Bowen), seducing Ferdinand (Sam Barriscale). Twelve silvery figures enact the role of Ariel, with allusions to Aleister Crowley and his acolytes. If this seems perverse surely the role model was the magus John Dee it works in theatrical terms, providing ...

... opening night is October 23. The final production, on No vember 18, is Snoo Wilson's The Beast, with Richard Pasco as Aleister Crowley. With him are Brenda Bruce, Janet Chap pell, Tony Church, Philip Dun bar, Peter Eyre, Patrick Godfrey and Rosemary McHale ...

... tape of mystic music serves to link the phases of action while the company gyrates widdershins. The spells sound like Aleister Crowley crossed with Dennis Wheatley and there is much stumbling over empty bottles and many near-accidents with lighted ranHlp ...

... intermittently regaled with lurid tales about the activities of Aleister Crowley, the self-styled Beast 666. Taking as his motto Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, Crowley was less of a magician than a master of the perverse and his career ...

... ok the liberty, as is his wont, of sending occult mae stro Aleister Crowley off to the Moscow of 1914 where Scriabin was working the year before his premature death from scepteaemia. Crowley was played by Oliver Reed, whose resonant radio pres ence made ...

... spellchecker helpfully suggests Retch as an alternative) all spoke up on behalf of the music, which is a little like calling Aleister Crowley as your character wit ness. Peter Stringfellow, a disco Miss Haversham for whom time has never moved on, told some c ...

... Building Society. Colefax Trust. Press: Tei Williams, 01865 883 139. Tha Stratagam and Othar Storiot, by Edgar Allan Poe. Aleister Crowley and Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Alistair Green, who also directs. Rose and Crown Theatre. Hampton Wick, to April 1 ...

... the various mediums and horror shows now populating Edinburgh and head down to see Periplum evocation of the life of Aleister Crowley , devil worshipper , occultist and serial shagger . Not only will you be taken in pairs by torchlight to hear incantatory ...