Marylebone and Paddington Mercury from Westminster, London, England (2024)

July 9, 1982

Publication:

Marylebone and Paddington Mercuryi

Location:

Westminster, London, England

Issue Date:

Friday, July 9, 1982

Page:

13

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TswBitwr 1 2 Friday July 9 1 982 FRINGE THEATRE THE POLISH National Song and Dance Company will be appearing at Holland Park Kensington from July 13 to 17 in their cotourful production named after the area where it was founded in 1948 Since then they have given more than 2000 concerts and participated in many folk festivals both in Poland and abroad Included in their repertoire are the songs dances and folk lore from the Lublin region as well as from other parts of Poland and the company performs in colourful traditional costumes ALTHOUGH well known to many people in Chelsea where he lived for a number of years Guy Rodden has worked a lot in France and his present exhibition at the Christopher Hull Gallery in Fulham Road Parsons Green includes a number of pastels in this venue He has concentrated on this medium after being commissioned by Batsfords to research a book on the subject Guy Roddon studied at the Byam Shaw School Goldsmith College and in Paris Talesnik presented by Ardent Theatre British premiere of smash hit Argentinian Mack comedy 800 Tue A Sim £170 Wed-Sat £720 Membership 30p now NOT A LOVE STORY A film about p*rnography genuine exciting intelligent ood alternative" Charing Cross Tube Tue-Sun: People Shew' 800 £300 KA day pass 40p KINGS HEAD THEATRE 115 Upper Street N1 (226 1916) Angel Tube Mon-Sat: Me A Little' songs by Stephen Sondheim directed by Robert Cushman A show composed of songs written for but cut from Sondheim's Broadway musicals such as and little Night Music' 800 dinner 700 Dinner and show £695 show only £300 LAMDA MacOwan Theatre Logan Place W8 (373 9883) Earl's Court Tuba Tue-Thu: Country Wife' by William Wycherley directed by Jane Gibson 730 Thu mat 300 LITTLE ANGEL MARIONETTE THEATRE 14 Dagmar Passaga Nl (226 1787) Angal Tube Sat A Sun: the medieval mystery play with a strong supporting programme ol shadows and turns 320 Adults £200 children £125 LYRK THEATRE HAMMERSMITH King Street W6 (741 0824) Hammersmith Tube main House: Mon-Sat: 'Tally's Folly' by Laniard Wilson starring Jonathan Pry ce and Hayley Mills 730 Studio: 'Berenice' by Racine directed by Christopher Fettes 800 £300 OVAL HOUSE THEATRE 52 Kennington Oval SE11 (582 7680) Tue-Sun: a play witty musk presented and devised by the West Indian Women's Project 745 £150 OLD RED LION THEATRE St John Street Nl (837 7816) Angel Tube Tue-Sun: by Argentinian playwright A National Film Board of Canada Film Every Wed all perh restricted admittance for women only All other days open to the public os usual £2 oh Mon all perfs ond Tue-Fri to 6 pm LATE NIGHT SHOWS at 1 1 pm Fri July 9: 2 (A) A STATE OF SIEGE (A) Sot July 10: JABBERWOCKY (A) A AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (A) and Andrea Kealy B1S Comedies' by Georges Courteline directed by Don Weinstein 91 5 One show £125 two shows £225 Mon-Thu: 815 With a Dying Man' by the Marquis de Sade directed by Mkhal Almaz 913 prices as above CAFE THEATRE LA BONNE CREPE 16 Maddox Street Wl (493 1030) Oxford Circus Tube Wed-Sat: You Love Me or leave Me' a comedy by Paul Prescott Dinner 800 show 930 Three course dinner plus shew £780 co*ckPIT THEATRE Gate-forth Street NWS (402 5081) Marylebone Tube Fri A Sat: The oriel Players Theatre Company present by Bortoh Brecht Sea Review Section 800 £200 concessions £150 CROYDON WAREHOUSE THEATRE 62 Dingwall Road Croydon (680 4060) Croydon East (BR) Mon-Sat: the the hi tech low cost digital read out show by Ian Barnet with Sue Pomeroy 730 GATE AT THE LATCHMERE 503 Battersea Park Road SW11 (228 2620) Clapham (BR) Mon-Sat: by Aleksandr Vampilov Directed by Lou Stein See Review Section 800 £275 plus 25p membership HALF MOON THEATRE 213 Mile End Road El (790 4000) Stepney Green Tube Mon-Sat: afford Tanzi' by Claire Luck-ham directed by Chris Bond Return of one of the best fringe shows of the year See it if you can Review next week 800 Mon-Thu £300 concessions £200 Fri A Sat oM seats £400 Free to unemployed subject to availability HAMPSTEAD THEATRE Sweiss Cottage Centre NW3 (722 9301) Swiss Cottage Tube Mon-Sat: by Joan Claude Orumberg translated by Tom Kempinskl 800 £300 Sat night £400 KA THEATRE Nash House The Mail SW1 (930 3647) ALBANY EMPIRE Douglas Way SE8 (691 33336 Now Cross Tubo 9-1 1 A IS: The Combination presents Tow Wanna Know What Heaven's Like You'll Bo There Soon' by Tony Coult directed by Sue Parrish 830 Sun 800 £260 unwaged £200 plus membership BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE Old Town Hall Lavender Hill SW11 (223 8413) Clapham (BR) Theatre: Sun: Experience' a performance for 6-13 year olds 75p over IBs £150 330 Children's Theatre Studio 2 Sun: Oily Cart Theatre Company presents Stop' live theatre for the under Ss 50p over IBs £100 Dance Festival events: Fri: one of the in the country S00 £230 members £190 concessions £100 Sat: Up' presented by two young done Contemporary Youth Dance and Phoenix Dance Company 730 £230 members £190 concessions £100 Sot Laurie Booth in Motion Pictures' 930 £230 members £190 concessions £100 Sun: Evening' featuring a hast of dance stars 730 £250 members £200 concessions £150 Wed: Indian Dance from court and countryside Featuring Tara Ro)muicar and musicians 730 £300 members £250 concessions £200 Thu: American tap dancer Will Gaines in concert with musicians and the Square Peg Singers 730 £300 members £250 concessions £200 BUSH THEATRE Bush Green (743 3388) Bush Tuba Tue-Sun: the Snow' by Abe Poisky 800 CAFE THEATRE Bear and Staff Pub 37 Charing Cross Road WC2 (240 0794) Leicester Square Tuba Fri A Sat: 'Intimacy' adapted from the story by Jean Paul Sartre and directed by Michael Almaz With Ann Sedgwick Vi Shirley Anne Field as Sheila in i WEST EN c9Qr Don Monahan Mark Herrier imum Sep Progs 215 615 8 55 Kate Jock son Horry Homlin Mkhoel Onfkeon Love Prog 235 605 835 REVIEWS ALBERT THEATRE St Lana WC2 (836 3678) Charing Cress Tuba NUSCC of a Lessor God' Thoroughly accomplished and moving portrayal of the relationship between a speech therapist and his deaf pupil Evenings 730 mats Wad and Sat 230 (nH Sep perfs Seats Bookable for final evening show RIVERSIDE STUDIOS Crisp Road Hammersmith W6 (741 2251) Hammersmith Tube Tue-Sun: and Ad mirers' by ALexander Ostrovsky translated by Hon if Kure-ishi and David Leveaux directed by David Leveaux 800 £450 £350 concessions £250 THEATRE SPACE 48 WiHiam IV Street WC1 (836 2035) Charing Cross Tube Until Sat: Inc' fast moving comedy revue by six television comedy writers 815 £200 plus 2Sp membership Mon-Thu: Elephant by Bernard Pomerawco presented by Proteus Theatre Company 745 £225 phis 25p membership THEATRE UPSTAIRS Royal Court Sloane Square SW1 (730 1745) Sloane Square Tube To Sat: Final performances of For England' by Trevor Griffiths 73 £200 TRICYCLE THEATRE 269 Kilbura High Road (624 5330) Kilbum Tube Mon-Sat: After' by Catherine ttxen and Ann Mitchell 800 See Review Section UPSTREAM THEATRE CLUB St Short Street SE1 (928 5394) Waterloo Tube Mon-Sat: by Matthew Rook presented by Six of One Theatre Co directed by Jayne Chard 745 £250 cessions £200 Linda's conviction that must find new ways of being is an inadequate fobbing off of the problems which communicates so clearly Duck Gate at the Latchmere THIS MUST be seen A contemporary work and a first for the Latchmere by a playwright who never heard of decisively asserts that a classic play can (at least in Russia) still be written mode is black comedy the cruelty is that he draws real people (though caricatures abound in the minor parts) to play out the farce The achievement of is not least technical in its effortless combination of social satire and individual tragedy with contempt verging on pathos verging on bathos Outrageously over the top grimly subversive Vampilov twists the knife this way and that hears a cry of pain but remove the point insisting on audience sympathy for as despicable an array of hypocrites victims and blackguards as ever graced a stage The company are inspired John Kilov is just right a surface Of neurotically active energy concealing he knows quite not what master manipulator There is hardly a weak link in the supporting cast (including Jonathon Kydd Neil McCarthy and Annie Hayes) who balance his darkness with the social comedy of manners Tedious scene changing spoil this production nor its length (three full hours) Great art riveting go! Hammersmith Fulham Arts Entertainments presents ELDERLY PERSONS TEA DANCE at FULHAM TOWN HALL Fulham Broadway SW6 Wednesdays 2-430 pm Doors open 1 :30 pm July 14 1982 Admission for senior citizens by free ticket available from Arts and Entertainments 1 81 King Street W6 Tel 74 1 3696 AMBASSSADORS THEATRE West Street Cambridge Circus WC2 (836 1171) Caveat Garden Leicester Square Tubes NUSCC Rosemary Leach and David Swift in Charing Cross Read by Helene Hanff Undromatic dramatisation of the twenty year correspondence between an American book lover and the staff of the British bookshop Marks and Ca Lots of nostalgia little action Evenings 800 mats Tues 300 Sat 500 ALDWYCH THEATRE Ald-wych WC1 (836 6404) Holbom Covent Garden Tubes by Taylor starring Alan Howard 730 mats Wed and Sat 230 APOLLO THEATRE Shaftesbury Avenue Wl (437 2663) Piccadilly Circus Tube Greetings' by Alan Ayckbourn by Nell Dunn Six women from widely differing backgrounds meet in a Turkish bath They discuss themselves their worries their problems their men and finally unite to fight to save their baths from council closure Feminist funny and fun Mon to Fri 800 Sat 81 5 mats Thurs 300 Sat 500 CRITERION THEATRE Piccadilly Circus Wl (930 3216) Piccadilly Circus Tube NUSCC Omega Stage Company in Dario Pay? Won't Mon to Thurs 730 Fri and Sat 600 and 845 duch*eSS THEATRE Catherine Street Covent Garden WC2 (836 8243) Covent Garden Tube Victoria Wood and the Great Soprende' in Turns' Evenings 800 Sat 600 and 830 DUKE OF THEATRE St Martin's Lane WC2 (836 5122) Leicester Square Tube NUSCC Billy Connelly and Patrick Ryecart in Beastly Beatitudes of Balthasar 8' by Donleavy The bawdy antics of Balthasar and Mend Beefy at Trinity College Dublin in the AOs For all the naked athletics the evening drags and would benefit from a half hour cut 74S Sat 500 815 mat Thurs 300 GARRICK THEATRE Charing Cross Road WC2 (836 4061) Charing Cross Leicester Square Tubes NUSCC Peter Graves Helen Christie Robert Doming Jonathan Darvill in Sex Please We're British' Long running typically trouser dropping farce concerning a mix up over a newly married couple's dsoflngs with DraytoivGardens SW 10 Tel: 01-373 5898 playing (X) at 300 500 700 900 wtorm -hearted film emotional and THE LEVELLER CHELSEA Kings Hoad 352 5096 4 Academy Awards inc Best Film In Dolby Stereo CHARIOTS Ol I 1R1 Sun Wk 3 50 8 30 £egoty Girl a Sep perf 2 00 6 40 Best Actor Actress Award Henry Fonda Katherine Hepburn Jane Fonda ioklei Prog 2 00 550 8 50 OO0 (OUf NS WAY BAYSWATER 229 4149 )Week commencing Thurs 8th July DEAD AND BURIED (X) Progs 1 45 440 7 40 Sun 4 30 725 Late Show Fri Sot 1 1 00 pm PARTNERS (AA) 1 30 5 10 855 Sun: 5 00 8 50 SOME KIND OF HERO (AA) 310 6 50 Sun: 645 Late Show Fri Sot 1 1 00 pm MISSING (AA) 435 7 40 Progs I 30 4 35 7 Sun 430 735 Late Show Sot 1 1 00 pm OO0 hammersmith 748 0557 Week commencing Sunday 1 1 fh July vReduced prices Mon to Fri up to 6 335 (not Sun) 61 Progs 245 (not Sun) 5 20 800 MAD AND 255 (not Sun) 5J5 455 THE ORCHARD END MURDER (X) I 40 not Sun) 4 40 7 40 SHOOTTHE MOON (AA) 5 40 8 20 255 (not Sun) 5 Progs 2 30 (not Son) 5 10 7 55 UTM Week commencing Sunday 1 1 fh July Reduced Prices Mon Fri a pm (X) Sun 5 55 8 25 Wk 3 25 5 05 7 40 Progs Sun 505 7 40 Wk 2 40 5 05 7 40 0 PARTNERS (AA) Sun 5 108 50 Wk 1 40 515 855 SOME KIND OF HERO (AA) Sun 6 55 Wk 3 206 55 DEAD AND BURIED (X) Sun 545 8 40 Wk 2 555 458 40 THE ORCHARD END MURDER (X) 7 30 Wk 1 50 4 55 7 30 Sun 4 35 24 HOUR INFORMATION SERVICE TELEDATA 200 0200 week Commencing Thursday July 8 Tricycle Theatre OUT OF a very modern concern (the position of single parent families) Catherine Itzen and Ann Mitchell in collaboration with the company have made an excellent piece of theatre both involving and enlightening Linda (Ann Raiff) sits at her desk writing a book gathering and reeling off anonymous government statistics that fail to do justice to the reality of the problem She is urged on by remembered figures of other representative cases three women who sit around her placidly sewing their wedding dresses while they dissect for our benefit the real evidence the terribly human comedy of shattered fantasy survival and loneliness This is the main strength of the production for the material of these case histories is patently hot invented and the telling by Shirley Ann Field Maggie Ford and Ellen Thomas is shrewd and understated exhibiting a typically unsensational feminine heroism The only reservation about this compelling and important evening of theatre is that the crucial discussion which underlies it the problem (indeed the possibility) of meaningful permanent sexual relations go far enough We stop at the point where female assertion counters partriarchal tradition insidiously compounded by economic expediency: no possibility of a transcending combination of man and woman is arrive at KENSINGTON 602 B6a4 APOLLO VICTORIA 17 Wilton Read SW1 (834 6177) Victoria Tube CC Petula Clark Michael Jayston Honor Blackmon and June BronhHf in 'The Sound of Musk' You knew what going to get and this spectacular production gives it ail its got Evenings 730 mats Wed end Sat 230 FULHAM RD 370 2636 Week commencing Thors 8th July PARTNERS (aa) 3 50 9 45 SOME KIND OF HERO (AA) Sop Prog Wk Sun: 2 00 750 MISSING (AA) Sep Progs Wk Sun 2 00 5 00 8 45 Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN AA) 3 45 8 50 AIRPLANE! 5ep Prog Wk and Sun 200 8 00 DEAD AND BURIED (X) Sep Progs Wk Sun 200 8 35 500 SHOOT THE MOON (AA) Sep Progs Wk I Sun 2 00 8 50 500 From Thurs 1 5th Jafy Pink Floyd's THS WAU (AA) 70mm 6 frock Dolby Stereo Seats now bookable OOOedgware Rtf 1 723 5901 CS Wi commencing Thu 8tf Juiy DEAD AND BURIED fXI 3 05 5 55 8 55 Sun 555 8 55 THE ORCHARD END MURDERS (X) 2 00 4 50 7 40 Sun 4 50 7 40 Late Show Fri Sot 1115 pm PARTNERS I 40 5 1 5 9 00 Svn 1 5 9 1 SOME KIND OF HERO (AA) 3 25 7 00 Lh 7 00 Late Show Fri A Sot 1 11 5 (AA) BUTTERFLY 2 55 5 45 8 45 Sun 5 Progs 2 00 4 50 7 45 Sun 4 50 7 45 Late Show Fr i Sot 1115 pm 45 BIG BOSS 2 (X) 2 55 6 00 9 10 Sun 6 00 9 10 CLEOPATRA JANE (X) Wk Sun 4 20 7 30 Late Show Sat 1115 pm CAMBRIOGS THEATRE Eariham Street WC2 (836 1488) Covent Garden Lei- double York Tom BoN and Tom Baker in Gabier' 800 mats Thurs said Sat 500 the order of the doy Evenings 800 mats Wods 300 Sat 500 GLOBE THEATRE Shaftesbury Avenue Wl (437 1592) Piccadilly Circus Tubo Gerald COMEDY THEATRE Panton Street SW1 (930 2S7S) Piccadilly Circus Tube 'Steaming' The RAUNCHIEST move about growing up PORKY'S (X) Comp Progs Wk: 245 10 Comp Progs Sep Prog 8 20 Sep Progs Sun: 5 10 820 Lote Ntght Show Fr and Sat 1 1 1 5 pm Aton Porker's FAME AA) Corn Progs Wk: 2 20 5 00 Sep Prog 805 Sep Progs Sun: 500 805 WESTB0URNE GROVE 229 3369 The RAUNCHIEST movte about growing up (X) DadyAOO 8 25 THE PUDGE (X) Do4y 5 15 7 50 Alon Porker's FAME (AA) Doily 5 05 8 00 Comp Progs Doily: 435 735 Two men chawng a dreom of glory CHARIOTS OF FIRE (A) Daily 8 10 This hoi to be the match of the doy GIRL (A) Defy 6 25 Mchoe4 Ontkean Kate Jock ton Harry Mo mho MAKING LOVE Progs Wk 230 54)5 805 Sep Progs Sun 5 05 8 05 Lote show Fn Sot 1 1 1 5 The one and only Craig Russel in OUTRAGEOUS (X) Comp Progs Wk: 3 10 525 Sep Prog 8 25 Sep Progs Sun 525 825 SWISS COTTAGE 722 5905 Ff hn RAUNCHIEST i I growing up (X) Sun 6 35 9 05 Wk I 30 4 00 6 35 905 Comp Progi Sun 5 45 8 20 Wk 3 15 5 45 8 20 Alan Paker 'i FAME (A) pfut MOMMIE DEAREST (aai Sep Progs Wk I 10 6 00 Sun 6 00 Double Double Seven Roge Moore Ian Fleming James Bund 007 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY ai Wk 355 40 Sun 8 40 MOONRAKER (A) Wk: I 25 6 to Sun 610 HAMMERSMITH 748 4081 Mon I Thun I 5th JACKSON BROWNE Tickets diet with theatre Sol 1 6th end Sun 1 7th TOY AH Ticket cheek with theatre CONCERTS NOW BOOKING light of the World Joe Jock ton Echo The funnymen Depeche Mode Shafcin Sievem Saxon Jopon The Shodowt Bob James John Mor Advanced Booking Office open Week day II oik 8pm Sunday 4 pm 8 Postal oppbcofiont welcome No YV Commencing Sunday July 1 1 FOUR evening lectures on India are being given at the Commonwealth Institute Kensington during July The first of these will take place on Wednesday July 14 when John Keay author of "India will talk on Discovers The talks will be given in the Jehangir Room at 7 pm and will be followed by discussion Future topics are Rise of Indian (July 21) and (July 28) and Discovers (August 4) Admission is free by ticket from the Education De SHEPHERDS BUSH 749 1116 Licensed Bor available to patrons The RAUNCHIEST Move growing up ever mode about (X) Please contact cinema for times Lote ntght vhow Sot July 10 MEAN STREETS (X) DIAL RAT FOR TERROR (X) Prog 1 1 SPECIAL LATE NIGHT PREMIER PREVIEW: ABC HAMMERSMITH FRIDAY JULY 9tti AT 1 1 00 pm c*nt EASTW000 in FIREF0X (AA) partment (please enclose sae) Commonwealth Institute Kensington High Street IWEIite Syncopations by Nerte Pa PROGRAMMES Ai ALL CINEMAS MA BE SUBJECT TQIATE CHANGE.

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