... Anglo-Indian 'Othello' rpHE Touchstone Thc.it re Com- pany, a group of amateurs with high ambitions, presented a production of Othello with Ranen Roy, an Indian actor, as the Moor at Unity, on August 30. Francis Butler's direction, especi ally on this small stage, was notable for its pace and breadth, although subtlety and a unifying style were lacking. Mr. Roy, tall and broad, looked an ...

... 'FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY' J CINCE it opened in June of last year, For Amusement Only. at the Lyric, has seen several changes in the cast. and this has brought new material to replace that which beat me dated in this fast-moving world. Wallas Eaton has inherited most of the numbers in which Hugh Paddick was featured and brings out their flavour extremely well, in Some Day You'll Find Me he gives a ...

... FILM VIEW Margaret Cowan's THIS week saw the beginning of the new Autumn schedules, and among them the new filmed series. More will follow as time slots become available. So this is as good a time as any to review the TV film field from the actor's point of view. What are the opportunities and what, if any, are the draw backs One thing is certain the filmed series, in one form or an other, ...

... FILM VIEW Margaret Cowan's STAGE TWO at ABC, Elstree, was very lively when I looked in a day or two ago. It is definitely my impression that TV film production by our own people is hustling up far more than in the early days. I remember when it used to be rather a leisurely business, with a goodish time taken over shots, and several re-takes. It is the pres sure of economics and also of ...

... FILM VIEW I PROMISED readers of this column more details of the newly-formed Rapallo Pictures, now in the process of making their first series, an anthology of half-hour plays with the over-all title of Rendezvous. Here thev are. This first venture is partly financed by America's C.B.S. and our own Associated-Rediffusion. C.B.S. will distribute in the Western Hemisphere and A-R in the ...

... Margaret Cowan's ALMOST inextricably mixed together are our producers of feature and TV films today. Take this quote from F. N. G. Leevers, President of the British Kinemetograph Society: It is not every exhibiting or producing company which has suc ceeded in extending its operations into the new medium of television, but I am certain that without the successful launching of ITA the effect ...

... MICHAEL CROFT's Youth Theatre production of Julius Caesar which began a short season it the Oueen's on August II. opens on a note of brilliant unconventionality with teenage Romans living in the streets to the strains of traditional jazz. And with thi^ Mr. Croft transforms v into a tale which b Tiding relevance to MoUcm-UiV ?.ire has often been i pon-- and more times tli. -vith gootl ...

... CRANKO'S COMIC BLOOD- AND-THUNDER BALLET by Eric Johns THE LONDON PREMIERE of John Cranko's music-hall burlesque of Sweeney Todd was given by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden on Tuesday evening last. With tongue in cheek Mr. Cranko has re-told the tale of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, using a highly eloguent dance vocabulary. Most ingeniously he has chosen movements which are the ...

... THE Brighton and Hove Repertory Company were in top form for the opening Ust week of The Gaye Affair, a comedy by J. Barry Roach which concerns a novelist, Gaye by name and nature, particularly where the ladies arc concerned. His generous use of sex and medium has put him in the best-seller class and his publisher as clamouring for the completion of his next novel. He choses a luxury hotel ...

... YOU Won't Always Be On Top, first seen at the Royal. Stratford, some three years ago, arrived at Unity on August 12 wilh some songs by Barbara Chapman but with all the defects one noticed on the previous occasion. The chief fault is that Henry Chapman's work is not really a play at all. It is more akin to what the television people call a dramatised documentary, dealing as it does with what ...

... VALERY HOVENDENS current production of Macbeth at the Hovenden Theatre Club from Sunday to Friday of this week, prior to a special performance at the George Inn. Southwark, on Saturday afternoon, is virtually the same as that which gained acclaim during their Malta season last December. Inevitably there have had to be some cast changes, and this week sees Viera Shelley making her debut ...

... by ANTHONY MERRYN MERRIE ENGLAND, that hardy stand-by of amateurs, had a lull and lavish profesional performance in Sadler's Wells on August 10. Edward German was no Sullivan, but he had a nonius and person ality of his own. which has caused (his work to survive on the sheer strength of his tunefulness, music- i.msh p and light touch. Otherwise (he rather naive plot, about Queen Elizabeth. ...