... that, tracks for pop records, being done up Mil and down dale in an underground studio by Stan, an impresario practically bankrupt but ever eager. He has discovered a wonderful singer, Sandy Beige, when having a drink too many in a club. At the time, Sandy ...

... The Merchant Of Venice CARDIFF A JEW-bashing tragedy with money-grubbing capitalists exploiting the tetter of the law to bankrupt an outsider? Or a romantic comedy with its most celebrated character appearing in a mere five scenes. Or a play of incon ...

... inspires some glorious music. A series of juxtaposed tableaux trace Jupiter's attempted seduction of Danae, daughter of the bankrupt King Pollux whose four nephews have married the god's discarded loves Semele, Europa, Alkmene and Leda. Having whetted ...

... past. However, as fervently enacted by the principals and the superb Glyndebourne chorus, its spiritual fervour exposes the bankrupt gestural politics of Valens and his Romans, whose cruelty is rendered scarier by the hedonistic cut of their music. The touching ...

... the lives of a robust community living arourd a Venetian piazza--lovers, jealous swains, comic mothers (sung by tenors), a bankrupt Cavaliere, a bookish guardian. Goldoni's plays lay dangerous traps for librettists and com posers. Their commedia origins ...

... homosexual. Eddie asserts that he is Ray's best friend but is having an affair with Beryl and serving a court order to make him bankrupt. Bull asserts that he is from the court charged with serving the order. Given such slight material the players havedifficult ...

... street people, dreamers and broken hearts in this sorta Faustian tale of a brilliantined wheeler-dealer who's gonna buy a bankrupt Big Apple and turn it into New Jerusalem Inc. Instead of a sharp rapier of satire, however, we have a hail of buckshot aimed ...

... turn, but the cen tral line, after the inheritance, is Evelyn's plotting to make his relations and friends believe he has bankrupted himself by heavy gambling. The antics of those around him, which often in volve Georgina, daughter of the peculiarly sycophantic ...

... storms of a Cheshire township provide the theme of this play. The setting is in 1 the shop of a draper who has been declared bankrupt. He is apparently a failure and something of a wastrel, and feeling that the j town is against him, he leaves i home without ...

... well is sunk on property claimed bv a pepperv re tired colonel Also inflicting his presence on the unfortunate pair is a bankrupt and boring Uncle Stanley, whose loss of fortune is not revealed until the couple try to raise money from him to pre vent ...

... She returns at last, accompanied by a monstrous retinue of slaves and sycophants to offer the town which is now totally bankrupt a huge sum of money, plus cash for each inhabitant, in exchange for the death of her girlhood lover. The horror of the piece ...

... delivers a convincing portrait of a desperately sad drunk. John Ireland conveys the empty braggadocio of one who is morally bankrupt but socially respectable. Vanessa Rosenthal as Sybil Birling is haughty to the inevitable point of self-destruction. Having ...