... 'WOMEN OF TROY' ROMANTICS are inclined to forget, when speaking of Helen of Troy, that the face which launched a thousand ships was also responsible for ten thousand deaths, the razing to the ground of one of the most beautiful cities the world has ever ...

... realism 1 mean under-playing for truth, not ovcrnlavinz for effect. Sometimes a player can give a terrible reading, but if be speaks two lines that flash, I know he will be right for the part. I need naturalistic acting which is the hardest form to put across ...

... Conti- I nental films will be a little more difficult where voices arc required. It might be worth while for anv artist who speaks a European language (other than English, of course!) rrallv fluently to get in touch with TV Advertising Ltd. especially if ...

... home and abroad. At a press recep tion tjc makes unguarded remarks about the Soviet Union, though he wouldn't have minded speaking in the House of Commons. This is the last straw. The President and Secretary of Slate decide to get rid of Smurch and so ...

... wouldn't quarrel with the decision if, in its carrying out, characterisation hadn't fallen by the wayside. Everyone seemed to speak with much the same voice. This is not to discredit the actors who, within the limits of the roles they were given to play, ...

... mistake after the last Odd Man episode wag filmed. After all this carping, it may seem paradoxical to say that technically speaking this play was well done. All it really lacked was a sense of direction. Given this, I believe it would've been successful ...

... return by the author to the land of his fahers was, to me, a sham and incon clusive. The dialogue was disappoint ing. Nobody speaks the way those people did, and I doubt if anybody, least of all a barrister, acts that way (even the way the characters walked ...

... called spades and the inarticulate come into their own. Nobody is inarticulate in Under Milk Wood or if they are the Onlooker speaks for them. I found a tendency to overact very slight but just enough in almost all the more comic characters. Talfryn Thomas ...

... degree to which you can identify yourself with the audience of holidaymakers and imagine self sitting there amongst them. Speaking purely as a viewer at home, I felt rather out of things The ABC Theatre. Blackpool, is a line new theatre. But as a set ting ...

... equally sure that audiences have had a surfeit of domestic series and are ready for a swing away from this kind of thing. Speaking for my own sex, anyway, I would say please take us out of the kitchen and give us some glamour for a chance SUSAN KAY CAST ...

... conveying thoughts and emotions by apparently irrelevant remarks or a change of subject and for letting us hear people speak as we really do speak. In his own way Christopher Tietjens. the hero of the trilogy, personifies a state of grace from which we fell in ...

... psycho-analysis. Vanessa Redgrave brought to the part of Sally, skill, imagination and passion. Her actions and her eyes had to speak louder than words, for words as a means of expression and communication were largely denied her. Untidy and crippled, she was ...