... Charming Suzi SUZI QUATRO is to star as Prince Charming in this year's Cinderella at the Shaw. EastEn- ders actor Paul J. Medford is Buttons, with Beejaye as Cin derella and Debbie Ash as Dan- dini. Ben Benison writes and directs the show, which runs from Decem ber 4 to January 2. ...

... End of the pier The 'much loved' Shanklin pier is swept away by the hurricane By YASMINE KARTAL A PIECE of theatrical history was lost forever last week when the freak gales which caused devastation throughout Southern England swept away the whole of Shanklin Pier on the Isle of Wight, and with it a 96-year-old Victorian theatre The pier, which was bought a year ago by the Southampton-based ...

... Caretakers put the broom in THE FISHGUARD Music Festiv al, planned for August, may have to be called off because of a row over school caretakers' pay for evening work. Dyfed County Council says it is being forced to save cash by cutting caretak ers' pay when schools are let to outside organisations. At the moment caretakers remain on duty throughout the period of the letting, but the county ...

... Getting The Point of Milton Keynes SCHEDULED for a November opening at Milton Keynes is The Point, described as Europe's first integrated entertainment centre, built in the form of a 70-foot high Mesopotamian ziggurat. A joint venture of Bass Leisure, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bass pic, Britain's largest brewing, entertain ment and leisure group, and the fast- growing American company ...

... Cheers! Whitbread goes down well in the discos We're not in it to make a few quick pounds' WHITBREAD's brewery has unveiled details of a new clubs division created specifically to cope with its recent nightclub acquisitions. Aureon Entertainments has been formed to operate both the brewery's current club holdings as well as die company's acquisition and develop ment programmes. Whitbread ...

... Copperhead THE BUSH COPPERHEAD by Erik Brogger, at the Bush, is a comedy-drama concoction, aiming at gothic creativeness, about a forgotten town in an outlandish pan of Pennsylvania. At the Hotel Grasslands, on land over an old mine which is smouldering fire, are assembled Raedar, a priest who utters momentous things through the lips of his vent doll; forlorn, piano- playing Lucille; ...

... Pamela SHARED EXPERIENCE/ BLOOMSBURY THEATRE IT MIGHT be thought that Samuel Richardson's Pamela, the first English novel and one that, moreover, is written entirely in the form of letters, would prove entirely intractable to stage presentation. But that would be reckoning without the enterprise of the Shared Experience company and the skill of the adapters Giles Havergal, who also ...

... Teenagers take a lesson YOUNG WOULD-be dancers are being offered a second chance to learn from the experts at one of London's most popular dance studios. Dance Works is followin j ii,e success of its first summer school last year by rCnewjr.g its invitation to teenage dan cers to spend six weeks at the studio. The teaching line up will include Lynn Seymour, Gilbert Mayer and Galina Samsova and ...

... Newcomer Flavin's favour TIM FLAVIN, star of On Your Toes and winner of the 1984 Award for 1984's most promising newcomer, was himself an award giver last week when he presented Greater London Arts Dance and Mime Awards. £1 ,000 went to dancer Laurie Booth, white dancers Pat Bardi and Carl Campbell, and mimes Ian Cameron and Nigel Jamieson each received £500. The Awards were funded entirely ...

... Rambert keep heads above water in '85 BRITAIN'S OLDEST dance company has launched an appeal to raise £500,000 and, even before the official announcement, goodwill gestures of £50,000 have poured in from industry and individuals. Ballet Rambert, which next year celebrates its diamond jubilee, plans to use the first £250,000 raised to repay a building loan on the extension of its Chiswick ...

... Friday Nights RIVERSIDE FRIDAY NIGHTS, the third play in the new lunchtime series at Riverside Studios, is a first work by 22-year-old Mick Mahoney. He draws on his own knowledge of sections of London's seamier side to tell a short story of three young convicts, herded in a cell in a re mand centre. One is a bloody-minded, ignorant but bewildered tearaway, another a black delinquent, and the ...

... TRICYCLE URFAUST, an adaptation from Goethe, is the Cologne Die Vaganten contribution to the London International Festival of Theatre, at the Tricycle. In cabaret setting, seedy byways, daylight and shadow, the Faustian drama is played out by an energetic ensemble, the production being im aginative and inventive. There is humour in the mundane and spiritual activities, with bizarre passages, ...