... Zeffirelli film, but this production will be a big hit with anyone under 21 and anyone with an unrestricted mind. It speaks to teenagers and speaks about teenagers. Kevin Berry ...

... Aye, there's the rub. The reciter, using what must be intended as a highly dramatic deli very, speaks, of course, in a tongue which is alien to us. He speaks all the parts in a tone, which yowls from gentleness to thunder and such is the stress of his ...

... the actor's Dr Faustus, taking over the part to the extent of making the actor sign away his soul to the devil in blood. Speaking almost entirely in character, a double tension is built up as the actor begins to suspect that far from playing a character ...

... to 1955, never quite hits its stride. The main problem is the playwright's overblown lan guage. His three feisty women speak in a pseudo-scientific regis ter which makes it all too easy to miss important details and plot developments. And while this ...

... but not a moving, production of Saint Joan is to be seen this week at the Cambridge Arts. The device of having the French speak with the lilt of the Irish (Joan's accent being Play by Bernard Shaw, presented by the London Arts Theatre at the Cambridge ...

... trasts and jokes. Hermia and Lysander, excellently played by Charlie Fane and Gavin Miller, are young leather clad lovers who speak Shakespeare's professions of love beautifully. Ian Harris' Demetrius is a nerd in a ponytail while Ruth Bennett's endearing ...

... Brian Friel's 1980 play at the Abbey Theatre. The complex work examines the moment of movement from a Gaelic-speaking Ireland to an English-speaking country. It is 1833 and the Catholic rural populace are educated in a system of hedge schools, funded by the ...

... ger and Player King, Neil Perkins is particularly noteworthy for his verse speaking and comprehen sion, as is Richard Jones as Horatio. Unfortunately, much of the other speaking declines into rant or gabble, which, with the cut text, is enough to baffle ...

... must take responsi bility. Hubert Gregg is a Hamlet of I intelligence, shading off into ncu- roticism rather than passion. He speaks his lines wilh intelligence and sensibility and his movements are graceful and subtle. One admired, in particular, the way ...

... by Fitzgerald) talking in a whisper through a microphone, creating a monotone lacking variety or timbre. But all the verse speaking is unambitious, playing literally sec ond fiddle to the music. Stephen Mangan as Ferdinand and Saira Todd as Miranda cope ...

... ennui. As the play is so Russian, there is the usual prob lem of how the dialogue is to be spoken. The actors speak as though they are Russians speak ing English, and this works well. Among a role call of good per formances are Aicha Kossoko, outstanding as ...

... The Golden Ass Glasgow Suspect Culture speak a very different theatrical language to their peers, and for this show--in association with the Tron Theatre and the Gorbals Initiative--they even leave English far behind, galloping over geographical borders ...