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TELEVISION TODAY REVIEWS: Vanessa gives another great performance

... Vanessa Redgrave's performance. The dungheap produces roses, the two actors I've mentioned, better playwrights than in the socialist world of ensemble theatre, and so on. After Saturday's installment of Hemingway you may say what -was there to it? The heroine ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 1966
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 428 | Page: 12 | Tags: television review 

A tedious comedy

... forced humour of the remainder depended upon Uncle Charles' efforts to convert Conservative James, Liberal Winifred, and Socialist Alfred, to Communism. Greedy to inherit his fortune, all three pretended to see the red light: James and Alfred built a wall ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1967
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 14 | Tags: television review 

Television Today Reviews: Redeemed by splendid performances

... Burnham). Tom's father, played by Roy Dotrice, an old miner ravaged by pneumoconiosis and what he re garded as the betrayal of socialist ideals, refused at first to come to the wedding. In the end. he did, and there were reconciliations all round as each group ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1967
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 12 | Tags: television review 

Edinburgh Festival--last reviews: The Hebrides

... their new cause is concerned. At heart he is an individualist, even a romantic and finds that the lum- bersome processes of Socialist bureaucracy are ineffective weapons with which to fight the ruthless forces of the power- lusters. Mr McGrath achieves much ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1970
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 14 | Tags: television review 

Television Today: Reviews - Bloch's Play

... with its neces sary quota of ups and downs and twists in the tail. Bloch is a middle-aged Glaswegian Jew and dis illusioned socialist who has temporarily had his revolutionary zeal rekindled by Maggie, a 26-year-old student at a teacher's training college ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1971
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 13 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY Reviews: Seasons of the Year: A Place to Go

... the belatedly married father and his thus far illegitimate son, were true and moving. But some were less so. The student socialist, all aggression and threats who ends up politely asking, the new owner if they can dig in the gardens for archaeological ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1971
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 11 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY REVIEWS: The Guardians: The Nature of the Beast

... and bureaucrats who had never had it so good that the only remedy was total destruc tion and replacement by a genuinely socialist state. The conflict between the two was tightly composed by Mr Hales and beautifully played by David Burke and Anthony Bate ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1971
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 13 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY Reviews: High Summer

... pronounce on his nephew's paintings, dismisses them as merely competent. And Jack the socialist: would selling the property to an investment company be in keeping with his socialist principles? And so on. In the end he turns his back on them, driving away in the ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1972
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 727 | Page: 16 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY: On Call

... Thames, October 3 by David Fisher AS everyone knows, the National Health is a monument to Nye Bevan and good, high-minded socialist thinking. In fact, as anyone who has ever tried to spur it into sudden and unexpected action soon discovers, it is also a ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1972
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 13 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY Reviews: Conrad does not get a look-in

... girl student, member of a Mao-ist group. Must get away. Seeks the help of a one-time fellow student, then a revolutionary socialist-- though only in name --now heading for a Drofessorship. He betrays her. Sends her to her death at Euston station as she ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1975
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 15 | Tags: television review 

TELEVISION TODAY Reviews: A hiccough from the sixties

... Here, in the high season of repeats, came what sounded like a hiccough heard regularly since the later sixties: the titled socialist-turned -bourgeois family experiencing the growing pains of the daughter involved at University with the extreme Left. She ...

Published: Thursday 14 August 1975
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 13 | Tags: television review 

More Play Reviews: My Mum Doesn't Know How To Draw Elephants

... . Presentation theatre' ecompasses. among others, TIE, community theatre, youth theatre and ideological 'causes' (be it Socialist Christian or reactionary). The latter aside, community presentation theatre provides a basis, a supple ment and a rei ...

Published: Thursday 21 June 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 13 | Tags: television review