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SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARY 1981 38 OBSERVER REVIEW ARTS Soviet 'Zon Blockbuster WILLIAM FEAVER in Paris. PHILIP FRENCH on Stalker ANDREY TARKOVSKY's cal adventure playground, fAcadpmv A is and the these men J' make is as much back to their like The Wizard ot Uz jt innocence as it is.to some transmogrified, by a disciple inner recess of the soul. of Dostdevskv and Kafka, mystica sanctum or rount o. political wisdom. and it confirms his position among the outstanding movie-makers at work today and as the preeminent Russian director of bis generation.

Loosely adapted from- the oonnlar Soviet SF-novel This reading of the picture is confirmed at the endwhen the Stalker's i pj daughter is revealed "a telekinetic powers that are the equivalent of her father's passionate faith in the value of faith itself: 'Stalker' is a rich and to the Beaubonrg will notice, have been seen here before in the series of big exhibitions aimed at proving Paris to be the very hub of twentieth-century art. The most recent of these was 'Paris Moscou' in 1979. That, say the' organisers, explains the absence of Soviet Socialist Realists oh this occasion. They had. quite enough of them then.

Yet the Neue Sachlichkeii contingent (Dix, Grosz. Hub-buch, prominent in 1978; is back again, a choice of works much die same as that also shown at the: Hayward shortly after. The un-precedently large Italian presence, 'on the other hand, REALISM can be pretty well anything you please. In politics realism means expediency. In painting it has backlash connotations reaction against the fanciful and the abstracted, a call to order spiced with populist appeal.

Not Realism but 'Les Realismes is the title of the latest Beaubourg blockbuster nr, in full, Les Realismes Entre Revolution et Reaction 1919-39, an ambitious and overloaded survey of Modernism, broadly speaking, between the wars. The artists included range from the benign Morandi to the caustic Otto Dix; from Dali pre-Stuntman Dali) to Hopper, from Picasso to some of can De regaraea as maxing up for a 'Paris-Roma' that Hitler favourites. Reoresentine Britain Mr hasn't taken olace. Analoly Solonttsyn as The and Mrs Stanley Spencer It is from Italy thdt the two paintings three draw- main theme of Les ings--and a WiUiam Roberts Realismes is. made to stem, self-portrait.

And that's the vdlori Plastici, a magazine lot from Grande Bretagne, founded in, 1918 and. repre- apart from a few literary senting the interests of De items such as a snap of Chirico, Carra and others, Stephen Spender walking -the stood for an alternative to streets with a 'Boycott tne fading mode of Cubism Japanese Goods sandwich- and tiresome, anarchic Pada. board. Futurism was behind. Les Realismes' are vari- war-damaged.

'Metaphysical ottslv neb-classicist, neo- painting and, as it developed uiirer, iimane, qoggeuij uermany, jeue oacniicii niralist. wide-eyed, documen kett (' New Objectivity ') 'Roadside by the strange movie, very long, very Strugatsky brothers, Russian, very much work Stalker is a quest movie set of the man who made the in a squalid unnamed indus- metaphysical space film trial State where a vast rural Solaris and the baffling area, 'The Zone, has been poetic autobiography 'Mir-ruled off-limits to the general though in its narrative public. The Zone" is thought and intellectual structure to have been both contami- this picture is a simpler, less nated and imbued with mira- pretentious affair. The film is culous powers by creatures cheerless, but neither cynical from another planet; at its nor essentially pessimistic, centre is a mysterious and it has a good deal of mor-' where visitors dis- dant humour. It's clearly an cover their innermost desires, allegory, but following and axe shown how to realise Marianne Moore's injunction them.

about creating imaginary Men crazy enough to pene- gardens with real toads in trate this closely guarded Tarkovsky puts his wasteland are known as fully realised characters up Stalkers, and we meet one to their ankles real mud. such, a shaven-headed You can put questions to him figure with emaciated fea- about this film when he hires and fanatical sunken appears as a Guardian lec-eyes, bearing a striking turer this afternoon at the resemblance to that famous NFT. photo of Sob.henitsyn in the The credit titles printed Gulag. He has a rendezvous in elegant red Gothic type at a dockside bar with two over the blazing ruins of the men The a disillu- Fuhrer's Berlin announced sioned author of bestsellers, Formula (Empire, AA) who writes about his readers, as yet another exercise in the and The a world- lucrative Patterson Ludlum renowned physicist. The 'Nazi Gold genre.

In this Stalker is to guide them past case it's ersatz black gold, the the border guards, then into formula for extracting cheap the heart of the Zone on their petrol from anthracite which mystical macho tour. is flourished as the Germans' The opening scenes are last bargaining card in a pre-shot in a stylised mono- VE Day prologue, before we chrome that renders this jump 35 years on to find the nightmarish world like a long arm of the Third Reich grisaille painting. The mood reaching into present day is that of a Fritz Lang politi- Beverly Hills, cal thriller. Once past the a fast-living expolice police, their journey by flat- chief is murdered, and bed railway truck is shown Detective Lieutenant Barney in close-up, so that we experi- Caine (George C. Scott), ence the change in terrain carrying more recent moral through the men's reactions, fright as a disillusioned When they alight, the film is former CrA man, investi-ln colour.

gates. Almost immediately he But there is nothing in- citc-nAZ-fi a ra.nirnlict rnn. fateful pay-off some years later (throats slit and heads rolling at a middle-American high school dance). The headmaster is the former skipper of the ill-fated Leslie Neilson, and not for the first time (for the fourth in 18 months to be prtecise) the doughty heroine is Jamie Lee Curtis, whose father's finest hour was spent stalking the streets of Boston as the legendary strangler, and whose mother's finest ended under a shower at the Bates motel. The opening of Cohn Hig-gins's Nine to Five (Odeon.

ducts endless expository conversations as the camera tracks him and his interlocutors around an LA racetrack, down a Californian road, from top to bottom of the Beverly Hills police HQ, through the streets of Berlin, Hamburg and Zurich. The litmus test as to who's lying and who's telling the truth about their part in concealing the ersatz petrol formula is whether they're shot the minute after they've spoken to Scott, or whether they live on to menace him further. For Steiffel has given his minions cartel blanche to murder anyone who threatens price stability. offered substantia post-war themes and Thus De Chirico set aside his original frightened-city strange assemblage motifs, though he was to revert to them on and off for the rest of his career, in favour of a High. Renaissance manner.

His yearning Harsh. focUs, lurid style Detail frbhi Care! WHIink's Wllma Among' the Germans, dif- This, of course, was one of equivalent, gave reahsm a ferences are more violently the constant challenges and bad name. Banality, idiocy marked attitudes determin- temptation's facing the inter- and worse became the norm. Aiieust Sander's It was for naintines uke these for grand old certainties was tary-minded and, not least, sJavish. Part of the exhibition is given over, to the contexts Socialist, Fascist, de Jiixe within which such art was produced and fostered.

There, are posters exhorting Germans' to serve the Reich with all their might and tempting them with Volkswagens 5 Marks down and years of easy payments. Ernst Sagebiel's Tempelhof airport- scheme' involving a terminal building big enough for indoor Stuka dives, is exceeded only by Albert Sneer's vision of a New Berlin. A puppet. Hitler, accompanied by a similar papier-mache Goering and Goebbels, is shown examining a scale model, of Speer's Leicester square, aaj bus- roKtz a broad satire on office maioaea oy uei am iii riauw rapidly advanced" trom pnotograpns 01 typical uer- inar. ruuer uuui ma and taken up by many others descriptive to symptomaticl taken for bis- exhaus- der Kunst in Munich.

Photo- for no better reason tiian- Beckmarin watches dancers rive survey of the individuals graphs in the exhibition how that Normality, it appeared, dutch at one another 'in. who made up the Nation, a model of the gallery being was being restored. Even smart Cigarettes are: have an integrity missing escorted in a procession by Picasso turned to Ingres. proffered lordly monocles from practically all the paint- lads in medieval togs. This Realism appears to come adjusted.

The wind-up gramo- in'gs around them. realism was, in the end, a two mooas amrmauve nhone supplies tunes, JLne Cartier-Bresson, Salomon and form of pageantry, delusion Walker Evans too show up dressed up as the Inevitable, die hand-painted Realismes paraded with crass There is a ready market ife- a women's lib reworking for this kind of paranoid, 0f those Fifties comedies that conspiracy theory stuff and filled the yawning Cinema-clearly it was the political Scope screen with three thrust of this naive movie, as secretaries throwing coins in much as the three-million- the fountain three fortune-dollar fee, which lured hunters chasing millionaires, Brando into sculpting another three provincial wives back-of his unacceptable faces of jng their husbands' bids for power that now make up a seat in the executive suite, something like an equivalent The successors here to sen-of Mount Rushmore carved sible brunette Lauren Bacall, in Wisconsin Cheddar. This ingenuous girl-next-door June one with thin straggly hair, Allyson and golden-hearted nl.nf fir- Pirrmnn nilf in) ZT -J HjTn.JIm A if 1f0 1 and embittered. There's pity, to the satirists-and casti-either body-worship or gators, is a squalidy yet excit-fascinated repulsion. Stanley mg mixture of falsities and Spencer's 'Double Nude: harsh realities.

of himself, his Such attitudes spread. In wife, a lee of mutton NM-horlanris. Carel Wil- oppressive mtLei jjcvc, scheduled to last a thousand zZzrJ. second as. tor tne most part, eiaoo- ts Realismes' proves rate pretences.

nothing, even if it does sig-Balthus's two great paint- nify an important shift in ings, The Street and The perspectives of are included in century art history. Realism, the exhibition, because they whatever form it takes, what-indicate what Realism can ever the based and a lamb chop, extremely link adopted a harsh focus naked flesh and meat beside and lurid style. His Wilma i Valor stove, combines the ha Mnal nrimnnH and years', a supreme and appalling demonstration of architecture as Realpolitik. As for the Beaubourg context, the Centre Georges Pompidou is beginning to herently remarkable about spiracy to rig world fuel two. But this is unusual, apprehensive, is as closed' but lead to not mere descriptive 0n an appreciation of what Most Realists, so-called, con- inwardly" passionate as any finish, but audacious editing actually is, not what could or "V6, a prices, masiernuiiueu uy iru conndent pauncti, rimiess Lilv Xomlin lexceiientj, jane with its anonymous flora, non cartel boss Adam Steiffel glasses and expensive, ill-fit- Fonda (characteristically show its age aireaay.

aixnes ccniraic un rate ujjc at uic oimenoa neroillc. UA awwauwia uw.w.w juigiiL -ue. mui- expense of the other. Reaction could take the images with meaning. ing thing, however, about this in concept.

Seventies in diSnctlv fragmented-or reconstituted Grant the MidAmeri- came to be associated with exhibition is the way styles ting suits and some sort or patronising) and Dolly Parton patrician drawl would seem (more overblown Mansfield to be modelled on John than irresistible Monroe). Foster Dulles. No doubt that gut their picture goes dis- old brinkman remains astrously off the rails as soon Brando's idea of the sinister a we meet their lunatic snopsouea hit nnmmatir a crnclr and snnn tpr.hniaue Duroose. Hence paintings of wit-h moral codes. 'Punty' Blue tracts are ruirea A vi.si, tnnV' Wit to rnmelv Rhine-maidens, built anrf 'hnnestv' together with existent fauna (save, that is, for a black dog, a traditional symbol of memory and fidelity), abandoned sheds, fractured bunkers, fossilised tanks, stagnant pools and waterfalls.

One is reminded of childhood games that first invested quite ordinary areas with magic properties and lurking dangers, and then invented rules and rituals for (Marlon Brando), and sets about interrogating a string of people with names like Obeonan, Doberman, Pinch er, Tauber. Lehman, Nolan, Esau. Siebold ft Al beins possibly the givem name of his Nisei assiv.u.i.. i L'tivc Yosuta). To conceal the almost total absence of dramatic action, with dust.

Cigarette ends Establishment power-broker boss, a JR-Iookalike (Dabney esoue matrons. Rudolf Cedar Rapids Iowa, a way of like cross-Channel swimmers that elusive artistic virtue Schlichter by contrast, saw treating landscape as model- being given the once-oyer by inspiration have long been onlv rabid sins and ills, maker's territory with, model a clean-hying chap in Ivo associated by the avant-garde Amone the ItaUan artists, farms and fields. Sahgerjs absurd 'Judgment th the avant-garde. Real-there would seem to have Charles Sheeler clarified of of happy families ists too, though, have always been a hankering after new industrial complexes to simi- appreciating their good luck harped on these values. What Madonnas, whether in the lar effect and, in his painting to be 100 per cent Aryan of makes so 0f them hard have been stuffed into every exposed heating vent and the spectacular escalators creak as they feed the public up and into the top storey where Les Realismes is installed.

This, too, has the air of a package' deal running out of Coleman) who pinches the firm's money, Tomlin's ideas and Parton's bottom. There ensues an ill-conceived mixture of How to Succeed in Business and under-plotted black comedy, wherein the trio are depicted as ninnies. Prum Night (General Release, X) is a typical teen-fright horror flick, beginning with the customary fatal prologue (tormented 10-year-old girl accidentally killed by innocently sadistic peers) followed by the inevitable the writer (Steve Shagan) neeotiatine them. Uennis form of society, ladies with young men giorymg in uiem- is their grinding Potter's 'Blue Remembered and director (John Avildsen) Hills' comes to mind. The use the peripatetic-dialectic Zone is indeed a metaphysi- method, by which Scott con- efn.Tm nil OYnrp 1 1 iir i i-- illic iuu uw.

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RIALTO Leicester Square (437 3488) DEATH WEEKEND (X) 3.40 7.05 10.30 THE CHANGELING (X) 5.15 8.35 12 Midnight. Ivan Turacncv trans by Isiah Beritn. LYTTELTON (proscenium stage) Tomor 7.45 THE PROVOKED WIFE by John Vanbrugh. Tues 7.45 Wed 3.00 (low price mat) 7.45 THE CARETAKER by Harold Pinter. Thur Fri 7.45 Sat 3.00 7.45 THE ELEPHANT MAN by Bernard Potnerancc.

COITESLOE (small auditorium) Tkts normally 3.70 (prevs 3.20, day tits from 10 am 2.20 Student standby 45 min before start 1.50). Prevs Tomor Tues Wed 7.45. Opening Thar 7 pm. Then Fri Sat 7.45 THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN by Tom Taylor. Excellent cheap seats from 10 am day of pert all 3 theatres.

Car park. Restaurant 928 2033. Credit card bkgs 928 5933. ESSENTIAL, 76 Wardour Street, Soho 439 3657. Sun: 9.15 PER-FORMANCE.

Mon: 9.15 i THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. Membership 30p pa. In- stant Adm. All seats 1.80. GATE CINEMA.

Nott HU1. 221 0220 727 5750. STARDUST MEMORIES (AA). 2.35. 4.15, 6.00, 7.45, 9.30.

PAPILLON (AA) DELIVERANCE (X). 11.15 p.m. ODEON HAYMARKET (930 2738 1. 27711. ALIEN MX) IS BACK.

1 in 70mm and stereo sound; Sep Progs Today at 4.20 7.45. All Seats Bookable in Advance. ACADEMY 2. 437 5129. Andrei Tarkovsky's handling new 61m STALKER (A).

Progs 1.50 (not Sun), 4.50. 8.00. rtftnnooooooooooOO CLASSIC HAYMARKET 839 1527 Last perfs bookable. Book now for Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL (X). Feb 19th lor a season.

1: THE JAZZ SINGER (A) 2s THE EXTERMINATOR (X) 3: FLASH GORDON (A) SCREEN ON THE HILU 435 3366. WOODY ALLEN. STARDUST MEMORIES (AA). 3.20. 5.15.

7.10. 9.15. Ring 435. 97S7 after 3 p.m. for phone booking.

ACADEMY 3. 437 8819. Cocteau's ORPHEE (A) and Renoir's PAR-TIE DE CAMPAGNE (A). Progs 5.45, 8.15. Sat.

Suns also 3.15. GREENWICH THEATRE, cc 858 7755. Evenings 8.0. Mats Sats 2.30. PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noel Coward.

A total success the playing throughout is excellent F.T. Donald Sindcn is immensely watchable Times. Comedy Theatre 01-930 5 LAST PERFS (ends Sat) 5 ODEON MARBLE ARCH (723 2011, '2) THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (U). Sep progs dn open today at 2.30, 6.45. QUEENS 'S' cc 01-734 1166.

01-439 3849. 01-439 4031. PENELOPE KEITH Peter JEFFREY Barbara FERRIS MOVING A New Play by Stanley Price Directed by Robert Chetwyn STRAIGHT ROM THE HEART A FUNNY AND MOVING STORY OF SELLING A HOUSE D. Mail. Evenings 8.00.

Mat Wed 3.00. Sat 5.00 8.15. GATE TWO CINEMA. 837 8402 1177. Russ Sq Tube.

EXCLUSlvJ PRESENTATION OF BETJE MIDLER'S THE ROSE 00. .30. 6.15. 8.40. SILVER STREAK (A) HIGH ANXIETY (A).

11 Pm. LICT) BAR. LAST 4 DAYS. STARTS THURSDAY WUTHER- Regional Theatres GLASGOW CrmENS' 0J1-429 0022 THE MASSACRE AT PARIS. CLASSIC HENDON 202 7137 NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (AA), THE BLUES BROTHERS (AA) 2: AIRPLANE (A), FOUL PLAY (A) 3t PROM NIGHT (X), LOVE AT FIRST BITE (AA) ODEON ST MARTINS LANE.

BEING THERE (AA). For info 240 0071. Box Office 836 1811. Sep Progs loday at 5.00 8.10. CAMDEN PLAZA.

Camden Town 485 2443 Conn Tube) ISABELLE HUPPERT in Maurice Piaiat's LOULOU 00 2.35, 4.40, 6.45, COLUMBIA, Shaftesbury Ave (734 5414). THE BLUE LAGOON (A A). Com progs today at 2.30, 4.40, 6.40. 8.40. Eves 8.15.

Mats Thurs 3, Sats 4 o.vi. maia HAMPSTEAD THEATRE 722 930! THE WORKSHOP by lean-Claude Gmmberff needs to be seen. Lee Montague volcanicatly comic. Lynn Farleiga superbly truthful Tms. Mon-Fri 8 p.m.

Sat 4.30 8 p.m. NEW END 435 6054 STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT by Dong Lnde Tues-Sun at 8 pm. ING HUCBia W)- oRfiLPHRICHJlRDSONg CLASSIC LEICESTER SQ (0 6015). THE EXTERMINATOR tX) Group Sales 379 6061 PERSONAL GATE THREE CINEMA. 267 1201485 2446.

Camden Two Tb. MIZOGUCHI-S CXAIC TOE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUMS (A). 3.50, 6.15, 8.40. HOD BAR CURZON, Curron St. Wl.

499 3737. BURT LANCASTER, SUSAN SARA DON in LOUIS MALLE'S ATLANTIC CITY (AA) Film showing at 2.0 (not Sun), 4.05. 6.20 and 8.40. Business Services ABERDEEN. Address and number of convenience.

Aberdeen (0224) 8757S6. RAYMOND REVUEBAR. 734 1593. At 7 T.m.. 9 D.m., 11 p.m.

Open Sun. PAUL RAYMOND-presents THE FESTIVAL OF EROTICA New Acts! New New Thrills! CLASSIC OXFORD ST 636 0310. 1: THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE (U), ENCOUNTER WITH DISASTER (A) 2: STARDUST MEMORIES (AA) 31 HOPSCOTCH (AA) 4: THE STUNTMAN (X) 5: AIRPLANE I (A) unnussajjie iwtiuuo cia SEARIiY DTS GATE MAYFAJR. 493 2031. MAYFAIR HOTEL, Strattcm St.

Green Pk Tb. KAGEMUSHA (A). 2.45 5.30. 8.20. LAST 4 DAYS.

STS THURSDAY WUTHERING HEIGHTS (U). OLD Via 928 7616, cc 261 1821 until Sat. Mon to Sat eves 7.30. Wed Sat at 2.00 THE RELAPSE by Sir John Vanbrugh. PALACE.

cc 01-437 6834. "OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EVENING Daily Mail. Rodgcrs Hammcrstcin's OKLAHOMA "A MAGICAL MUSICAL EXPERIENCE Sunday Times. Evgs 7.30. Mats Wed Sat 3.0.

For Group Bookings. 379 6061. Better selection of seats available Mon-Thurs. DOMINION. Tottenham Court Rd (580 9562).

FROM NIGHT (X) LOVE AT FIRST BITE (AA). Cone Progs Wks 1.30 3.20 7.00. Sun 4.15 6.10. ruuy an towuuul, 23rd SENSATIONAL YEAR POINT OF SALE dispenser and displays in Pcrspex, flejiglass and styrenc. One-offs and multiples.

24 hour prototype service for all trades. Tel. Welwyn Garden 3659333932. FOR YOUR DUPLICATING. Prinung, Secretarial requirements contact BBS.

90 Hornefield House. Hazlewood Crescent, London W10 5DSV. You'll find us the cheapest and best. LONDON SERVICES (Kensington). 602 6O60.

RIVERSIDE STUDIOS 3354. Tues to Sun 7.30. JOINT STOCK in Say Your Prayers. New musical by Nick Darke. Admirable story telling intelligent comedy Times.

CLASSIC CHELSEA 352 5096 Last pcrf bookable Is LOULOU (X) Subtitles 2: THE STUNTMAN (X) 3i KAGEMUSHA (A) 4: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (AA) Book now for Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL (X) from Feb 19th for a by David Storey Directed by Lindsay Anderson For Him ROUND HOUSE 267 2564. CONTEMPORARY MUSIC NET-WORK. Tbn't 6 om Workshop. Daily information service. Aberdeen (0224) 875786 for price list.

Est. 30 years. MINI COLOUR PRINTS Adhcsive-buckcd in London. Shop callers welcome. ACL.

53 Willesdcn Lane, NW6. Phone 01-328 188S. 7.30 DON RiMJfcLlj rNirvr. ODEON LEICESTER SQUARE (930 6111). lane Fonda.

Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton NINE TO FIVE (AA). Sen progs. Drs open today at 3.00; 7.30. MEN'S EXOTIC BRIEFS, etc. Send 2 14p stamps for free illtw-tratcd catalogue plus gift vouchers.

Prompt confidential postal service. JONS (OB), 3 Rodeo St. liford. Esses. presents: mmm then visiting Richmond Theatre, Surrey Feb 16 to 28 York, Theatre Royal Mar 2 to 7 Croydon, Ashcroft Theatre Mar 9 to 14 jiff T.M.nrUn-.4Vv Mar lftiAQl lAfTTV TRAFALGAR ROUND HOUSE 267 2564.

Scarborough Theatre in the Round in SUBURBAN STRAUSS Musical play by ALAN AYCKBOURN. Composed by PAUL TODD. Evgs 8. Mats Thuis Sat 2.30. Until March 24.

SQUARE MP (X). Oin 1143 BABY TRA." yVutAeting2leigfitsu 4.35. KEYHOLE (X). Progs 3.10 7.25. All seats ja.

PALLADIUM. 01-437 7373. Evgs 7.30, Mats Tues. Wed. Thur Sat at 2.45.

JIM DAVIDSON. MOLLIE SUGDES', WINDSOR DAVIES, MELVYN HAYES. CLIVE DUNN. LIONEL BLAIR in DICK Yv'HITTINGTON Bright fast-moving, dazzling spectack: worth every penny. Mail.

Book Now. Box Office and all agents. Credit Cards accepted Group Sales Box Office 379 6061. FORTHCOMING ATTRACTION: THE LIBERA CE SHOW 81 starring "MR SHOWMANSHIP LIBERACE with supporting company. OPENS 28 APRIL for 2 weeks only.

BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN, VEHICLE DISPLAY STICKERS. We design screen print on clear PVC film. Vinyl and magnetic material, one of the most economical ways of advertising your name. For details and prices phone 061 761 2117. Wardeli Publicity Bureau 150154 Heywood Bury, Greater Manchester.

warailXilcvv lAicauo -L nn oo max xo PistyfcBroiPinaiqquTOUMiiat. LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE (930 5252) TRIBUTE (AA). Sep Progs tojlay. Drs Open 2.10. 5.10, 8.10 All Seats Bookable.

Billinoham.Forum Theatre Mar 30 to Apr 4 I jZ. Newcastle. Theatre Roval Apr-7 to 1 1 PERSONAL also on pages 30, 32 47 ROUND HOUSE 267 2564 ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE COMPANY. THE DUCHESS OF MALF1 with HELEN MIRREN. 1 April-9 May.

HAT; YOU ANYTHING TO DECLARE 7 13 May-6 June. THE MISANTHROPE with TOM COURTENAY 1 Iuly-1 Aug-Tlct Available. mo. Postal Bits now open. Season FINANCE BROKERAGE, new complete course.

Details Poolswcb. LONDON PAVILION, Pice Circus (437 2982). THE DOGS OF WAR (AA). Cont progs 1.10 (not Sun). 3.15, 5.45.

8.15. Late Show Sat 10.45 P-m. A NaHonal Theatre Production 90 Hornefield House. Hazlewood I Crescent. Lnndnn W10 5DW.

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