... Rain BRIXTON THIS NEW play by Gregory Motton, performed by The Ezra Theatre Company, is an intriguing piece loosely based on the story of Noah and the Ark and set in a London which has been invaded by the Chinese and reduced to the proportions of a village. There is some subtle humour. The creepy Mr. Sly (John Fahey), for example, when referring to the rising flood water and growing civil ...

... Say the Word TWICKENHAM HEATHAM HOUSE Youth Theatre, following the success of their new musical version of The Prince and the Pauper, have come up with another compilation of words, music and plot, this time some four centuries on and several light years removed in concept to the last. Adrian Worsfield, a full-time lecturer at St Mary's Training College, Twick enham and associated for ten ...

... Three of a kind to quit TWO IS company but Three of a Kind is definitely a crowd say comedy stars Lenny Henry and David Copperfield, who have just opened their summer run at Black pool's North Pier. After highly successful series of the comedy and with third partner Tracey Ullman high in the American hit parade the team has decided to quite whilst it is ahead. David and I have our own ...

... Trader fined A MARKET trader who infringed copyright by offering tapes of record ings by the Beatles and other artists, not commercially available, was fined £120 by Rhuddlan magistrates. Manchester dealer Anthony Nolan admitted six sample charges. The tapes were offered for £3 and £3. 50 at the stall known as Aladdin's Cave in Rhyl's West Market. Police found 168 tapes, said to have ...

... Adeler's 90th GWEN ADELER, one of the last surviving links with the great days of the pierrots, celebrates her 90th birth day with a party at the Concert Artistes Association on June 2. Apart from arthritis which confines her to a wheelchair, she is in good health and occupies herself with writing about her long career in the business. ...

... Last Summer in Chulimsk BIRMINGHAM THE BRITISH premiere of this play by one of Russia's most popular modern dramatists, Alexander Vampilov, whose career ended tragically in 1972 when he drowned in a boating accident, adds considerable lustre to the Rep's current Studio season. It's beautifully designed by Geoffrey Scott who turns the whole of the studio floor into a clearing in a forest, with ...

... An account of inner city life THE FAI CON THEATRE Hatchet ONE MAN went out to find his enemies, and he found no friends. Heno McGee's disturbing account oi inner city life takes the case of Hatchet (Sean Lawlor) who lives in a Dublin tenement with gentle wife Bridie (Maggie Mullarkey), abrasive Mother (Car- md Cryan) and 'touched' Uncle HaHa (Maurice Blake) touched, that is, a little too ...

... Selfish blaggard Punch TRICYCLE Punch and Judy Live I'LL COME clean and say that I don't like Punch, never did and never will, and some of the children at the Tricycle Theatre shared my antipathy at the DIY's performance of Punch and Judy Live. Others greeted each turn of events with shrieks of delight, but then they were the types who relished carrying on the traditional rites of oh no he ...

... The Recruiting Officer RIBMINGHAM THERE'S a meticulous, careful hand on this production which robs it of the robust qualities it needs to release the humour in the play. Beautiful period costumes, elegantly worn by the Young Company's actors, and a suave, unfussy approach to the bows and flourishes of the period etiquette, set the right background style for the production, but there's very ...

... Cash crisis looms over Fair Deal £½ million venue faces closure MOIRA PETTY reports BRIXTON'S £½ million Fair Deal rock venue is in danger of closure after six months of cash problems. Only six people mended a public meeting thrown by its desperate owner Alan Briggs last week in an attempt to force Lambeth Council to produce the £62,000 grant it had promised. The Fair Deal faces debts of £60 ...

... Music hall revival SUPPORTERS of a campaign to revive Wilton's Music Hall will this weekend see the first live show to be staged there for more than 100 years. In what is described as a strictly private party for the Friends of Wilton's, a parade of showbusiness stars are expected to tread the music hall's boards for the first time since around 1880. Actor and comedian Christopher Big gins ...

... Palace set to re-open THE PALACE Theatre in Kilmarnock is to re-open on September 4 with a Stars for Spastics show with come dian Johnny Beattie, Joe Gordon and Sally Logan also on the bill. The theatre was closed in 1978 for renovation, but the discovery of dry rot and then a fire caused by vandals pro longed the closure. The theatre will now seat 560 and has new seating, a new foyer, a new ...