... women and five men who group and re-group before (he altar to illustrate their lair, now speaking individually as a single character. 1 now rejoining the others (o speak in the chorus. The effect of this constantly changing pattern of I speech and group is ...

... actors are required to stand (sometimes apart, sometimes close together) and speak at each other. Occasionally they face the audience and speak at them. Rarely do events on stage speak for themselves. The amateur company give their all to the production, and ...

... As he conducts Wagner, he speaks his inner thoughts, about his wife and a handsome young man watching him through opera-glasses from the audi ence, and about the soprano soloist and orchestra leader. Especially, he speaks about his own self-gratification ...

... Classic capers CHELTENHAM Relatively Speaking HOORAY! Something to laugh about at last. Alan Ayckbourn's exquisitely crafted Relatively Speaking comes to Cheltenham to start the Everyman Theatre's new spring season. 1 he play, which was written in 1 967 ...

... own with a beautifully pathetic Antonia and a gorgeously seductive Giuletta. with the speaking Stella a convincing blend of loftiness and weakness. Singing and speaking generally, in this elaborate and ingenious, though occasionally overdone original staging ...

... with no identification of time and place, performed on an empty stage, minus any props and with 28 of the 31 speaking pans (plus many non-speaking walk-ons) played by nine actors, al) dressea in DiacKs, greys and whites. That is the situation with this ...

... superior mime, as in this production. All the central characters use sign language. Some of them speak while they are doing so; others have voices to speak for them. The voices are ac tors, clothed head to foot in discreet puppeteers' black, who follow ...

... well have added that an actor's body can speak more expressively than his face and voice. Its productions involve both masked and unmasked charac ters. But the masked figures, despite their passive features, speak more deeply and directly to us through ...

... easy. Joe McColum, who speaks Mrs. Jessie KeKmanova's specially written pro- I logue rather over-floridly, is not later, every inch a king, though a good few feet of him arc regal. The most convincing are James MeKin- lay. who speaks clearly as Sir Rogei ...

... stutter. Seldom are characters allowed to unleash emotion - an impassive table face and a deliberate, almost incantatory speaking of the text are a house style of this production. Similarly, designer Stewart Laing has created an empty doll's house for ...

... L'Europe. The piece is directed by Patrice Chereau, who plays a Dealer. He is joined by Pascal Greggory as a Client and they speak not in duo logue, but pose great monologues of glittering language into the empti ness of Edinburgh's Drill Hall. As Chereau ...

... MARRIOTT REVIEWS THEY SPEAK of the noblest Roman of them all; at the Olivier is the noblest of Moors, played by Paul Scofield in Peter Hall's splendid production of Othello. Scofield is the purest spirited and purest speaking actor on our stage today ...