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THE GUARDIAN Friday August 4 1989 30 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE Stephen Rea in Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun at the Olivier Theatre: see Critics' choice Susan Drury and Kate Nicholls; Huis Clos: see Listings PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY This wonderful American company comes to the end of its London season, tonight performing Mercuric Tidings. Last Look and Sunset. Sadler's Wells Rosebery Avenue EC1 (01-278 8916) 7 30, E4-E25. Tube-Angel. Outside London BIRMINGHAM ADVENTURES IN MOTION PICTURES Including Jacob Marley's typically quirky My Little Peasant Dance.

Matthew Bourne's underwear divertissement Spitfire, and Brigitte Farges's Kalenda Maia. Midlands Arts Centre Cannon Hill Park (021-440 383B) 8.00. 5. cones 3. St Wl (01-831 1011) 7.15, 4.50.

Tuba: Bond Street. ANONSANDRA Michel Tremblay's play in which an obsessive religious fanatic is contrasted with an obsessive transvestite. Man In the Moon Theatre King's Road SW3 (01-351 2St Wl (01-631 1011) 7.15. 4.50. Tuba: Bond Street.

MEDEA Irish poet and academic Brendan Kennelly's version of this classic story of female revenge, with the original Dublin cast. Watermans Brentford High Street (01-568 1176) 8.00, 6. cones 4 (Mon-Thur). BR: Kew Bridge. THE PIOOY BANK See Critics' Choice.

Greenwich Theatre Crooms Hill SE10 (01-858 7755) 7.45 (Aug 7 at 7.00), Sat 2.30 8 7.45. E6.75-E8.50. BR: Greenwich. RASPBERRY Two women meet in hospital one is there for an abortion, the other for an operation to 'cure' her infertility. In Tony Marchant's play they find they have more in common than they expected.

Corner Theatre Hen and Chickens, Highbury Corner N1 (01-226 3724) 8.00. 4, cones 3. TubeBR: Highbury 8 Islington. A SLICE OP SATURDAY NIOHT Exuberant 60s musical pastiche set in the Club A Go Go, where the owner, ageing rocker Eric 'Rubber Legs' de Vance (Binky Baker), keeps a firm hand on his young regulars. Marc Urquhart directs.

Kings Head Upper Street N1 (01-226 1916) 8.00. Sat 3.00 8 8.O0. 7.50 8 6.50. Tube: AngelHighbury and Islington. SOMEONE TO REMEMBER ME BY A fantasy musical by Paul Prescott and Rod Anderson, set against the backdrop of a doomed mythical kingdom.

La Bonne Crepe Battersea Park Road SW11 (01-228 5070) 9.00, 5. BR: Clapham Junction. WATCHING A thrilling two-hander from Jeremy (The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes), with Patricia Garwood and Daniel Hill. The Boulevard) Theatre Walkers Court. Brewer Street W1 (01-437 2661) 7.45.

6. cones 4.50. Tube: Piccadilly Circus. WHO'S LEFT The perils of 'new womanhood' explored when three old friends leave their men and set up house together. By Barry McCarthy.

Old Red Lion St John Street EC1 (01-837 7816) 8.00. Tube: Angel. on the farm? The Piggy Bank: see Critics' choice MANCHESTER HAIR See Critics' Choice. Opera House Quay Street (081-831 7766cc 831 7733). LA NEGRA ESTER See Critics' Choice.

Roman Fort Site Liverpool Road (061-236 1677). NEWBURY CASTE Romantic Victorian comedy in which an officer and a gentleman risks riches and social standing to marry a variety girl. WatarmUl Theatre Bagnor (0635-46044CC 46044). NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE VETERANS DAY See Critics' Choice. Theatre Royal Grey Street (091-232 2061).

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME OOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY! See Critics' Choice. New Victoria Theatre Etruna Road (0782-717962). OXFORD AS YOU LIKE IT The Oxford Stage Company in a specially-built auditorium in the Newman Rooms with a six-week season of Shakespeare's comedy, directed by OSC's new artistic director John Retallack. Deborah Findlay leads the 14-strong cast as Rosalind, with music by Howard Goodall. Rose Theatre Rose Place.

St Aldates (0865-790625). PLYMOUTH 42ND STREET Toe-tapping razzmatazz in this all-singing, all-dancing tale about a young ingenue making it big in New York. Theatre Royal Royal Parade (0752-669595cc 267222). SCARBOROUGH THE REVENGERS' COMEDIES PART II The second half of Ayckboum's latest comedy, following the dark deeds and deep passions of two strangers, who together decide to take their revenge on an unjust world. Stephen Joseph Theatre In the Round Valley Bridge (0723-370541cc 378863).

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Shakespeare's most magical of romantic comedies, in John Caird's production. The RSC cast includes John Carlisle and Clare Higgins as TheseusOberon and HippolytaTitania. Royal Shakespeare Theatre (0789-295623). ROMEO AND JULIET Terry Hands directs Georgia Slowe and Mark Rylance. Swan Theatre Waterside (0789- 295623).

WINDSOR TOWARDS ZERO Murder and mystery from the pen of the grand lady of crime. With Michael Cashman. Marius Goring and Glynn Edwards. Theatre Royal Thames Street (0753- 853888). YORK SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER Goldsmith's rollicking Restoration comedy of mistaken identities.

Theatre Royal St Leonards Place (0904-623568). THE CABARET OF DR CALIOARI The London Bubble presents a supernatural spoof in which four guests play for their lives amongst music and mayhem. Richmond Green (01-237 4434) 7.45. 5, cones E2.50. BR: Richmond.

CARTHAGINIANS Moving and witty Derry set play from Frank McGuinness in which seven men and women joke, remember and lament the loss of young life on Bloody Sunday 1972. Sarah Pia Anderson directs a cast that includes Sorcha Cusack and David Herlihy. Hampstead Theatre Avenue Road NW3 (01-722 9301) 8.00. Sat 4.00 8 8.00. Mon E5.

Tue-Fri 7. Sat 8. Tube: Swiss Cottage. CRY OF ASIA See Critics' Choice. Riverside Studios Crisp Road W6 (01-748 3354) Opens Aug 8 at 8.00.

6.50. concessions 4.50. Tube: Hammersmith. DON'T LAUGH THIS IS SERIOUS Ben Keaton directs the aerial acrobatics and magical mania of Ra Ra Zoo. Circus with a punch.

Hackney Empire Mare Street E8 (01-985 2424) Tue-Thur 3.00. Fri 3.00 8 8.00. Sat 8.00, 5. cones 4. BR: Hackney Central.

FARRAGO A JAZZ CABARET See Critics' Choice. Hackney Empire Mare Street E8 (01-985 2424) Aug 10 8 11 at 8.00. 5, cones 4. BR: Hackney Central. OLENOARRY GLEN ROSS David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning study of Chicago real-estate salesmen.

The Viceroy Adelaide Road NW3 (01-722 9425) 8.00, 4. cones 3 (plus 25p m'ship). Tube: Swiss CottageChalk Farm. HOMELAND US complicity in Apartheid is comically explored in this play from the American Antioch Theater Company. Canal Cafe Theatre Bridge House Pub.

Delamere Terrace W2 (01-269 6054) 7.30. 3. cones 2. Tube: Warwick Avenue, HUIS CLOS Sartre's eternal triangle: one man and two women suffocating in a hell of their own making. Presented by Cotswold Theatre Group and directed by Alison Sutcliffe.

Lyric Studio King St W6 (01-741 2311) 8.00, Sat 4.30 8 8.00, 6. cones available. Tube: Hammersmith. THE JURY WILL IGNORE THAT LAST REMARK An improvised courtroom drama with six of the Gate's regular Late At The Gate's performers. Oate Theatre Pembridge Road W11 (01-229 0706) 7.30, 4.

cones 3. Tube: Notting Hill. LOOKING AT YOU (REVIVED) AOAIN Gregory Motton. the sometimes dislocated, sometimes powerful voice behind Chicken. Ambulance and Downfall his three previous plays gets a new production of his story of misaligned friendship and love.

Buih Theatre Shepherds Bush Green W12 (01-743 3388) 8.00, 6. Tube: Shepherds Bush. MACBETH Shakespeare's supernaturally horrific tragedy, performed with a 14-strong cast by the Argonaut Theatre Company. Rhdngold Club Sedley PI. 361 Oxford 1 THE Guardian's daily entertainment guide ia supplied by Listings Limited.

All Information for inclusion should be sant to Listings Umltad, 17 Ber-nars St, London W1P 3DD (01-323 2101). Different categories ara highlighted In full each day along with a selection of other events: Monday Highlights of the Week and forthcoming events; Tuesday Classical muslcOperat Wednesday Visual ArtsDance; Thursday Cinema; Friday TheatreRock JazzCabaret (on two pagaa); Saturday Weekend events. Theatre listings, Claudia Stumpfl; Rock, Bruce Dessau; Jazz, Rick Qlanvill; Cabaret, Chris Riley. (A) Seats at all prices. S) Limited availability (R) Returns only.

(D) Disabled access ANYTHING GOES Slick direction, a sprightly cast and the magic of Cole Porter's songs manage to rock this seaborne evening along at a pleasant pace. Elaine Paige does her stuff as an evangelist night club singer, with Howard McGillin as a charmingly boyish stowaway. Prince Edward Theatre Old Comp-ton Street W1 (01-734 8951) 7.30. Thur Sat 2.30 7.30. (D) Tube: Leicester SquareTottenham Court Road.

IS) ASPECTS OF LOVE Latest Lloyd Webber uses lightning scene changes to achieve movie-style musicalopera production, as Michael Ball and Ann Crumb weave a tangled web of love affairs. Superb performance from Kevin Colson. Prince of Wales Theatre Coventry Street Wl (01-839 5972cc 836 3464) 7.45. Wed Sat 3.00 7.45, E15-E22. (0) Tube: Leicester SquarePiccadilly Circus.

(R) THE BLACK PRINCE Iris Murdoch's sparklingly clever melange of fact and fantasy, art and angst. feminism and feelings, comes a little reluctantly to the stage. But fired by bold intellect and a delirious central performance from Ian McDiarmid it remains, almost, a royal evening's entertainment. Aldwych Theatre Atdwych WC2 (01-836 6404cc 379 6233) 8.00. Wed 3.00 8 8 00.

Sat 5.00 8.30. E5-E15. (D) Tube: Holborn. (A) BLOOD BROTHERS Twins brought up on different sides of the tracks provide the dy-Mics for Willy Russell's likeable and award-winning Liverpudlian musical. Albery Theatre St Martin's Lane WC2 (01-867 1115CC867 1111) 7.45.

Thur 3.00 7.45. Sat 4.00 7.45. 6.90-18.50. (D) Tube: Leicester Square. (S) BRIQADOON A gentle, mystical musical set in the Scottish Highlands, brimming with kilts, colleens and Celtic charm.

Fine voices belt out cheery melodies, adding a pleasant coating to an unremarkable text. With Ja-cinta Mulcahy and Robin Nedwell. Victoria Palace Victoria Street SW1 (01-834 1317cc 834 1317) 7.30. Thur Sat 2.30 7.30. E8-E20.

TubeBR: Victoria. (S) CATS A chorus-line of cute cats from Andrew Lloyd Webber, with a helping hand from T.S. Eliot. New London Theatre Qrury Lane WC2 (01-405 0072cc 404 4079) 7.45. Tue Sat 3.00 7.45.

(D) Tube: Covent GardenHolborn. (R) A FLEA IN HER EAR See Critics' Choice. The Old Vic Waterloo Road SE1 (01-028 7616cc 261 1821) Mon-Fn 7.30. Sat 4.00 7.45. Wed 2.30 7.30 (Aug 8 at 7.00).

E4-E15. mats E3-E12. (D) TubeBR: Waterloo. (S) FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE A New York short-order cook (Brian Cox) and a waitress (Julie Walters) have an explosive one-night stand. He then wants love and romance, she wants to return to her lonely independence.

Ter-rence McNally's Off-Broadway import may edge towards sentimentality, but is redeemed by its humour and performances. Comedy Theatre Panton Street SW1 (01-930 2578cc 839 1438) Mon-Thur 8.00. Fri Sat 6.00 8.45. (D) Tube: Piccadilly CircusLeicester Square. (A) HAMLET A majestic, measured production from Richard Eyre, with Daniel Day-Lewis cutting a darkly dashing figure as the Prince.

Rounded, clear performances from Judi Dench and Michael Bryant. National Theatre; Olivier South Bank SE1 (01-928 2252) 7.00. Sat 1.30 7.00, (D) TubeBR: Waterloo. (S) HENCEFORWARD Ayckbourn takes farce into a non-user-friendly future, where composer Jerome (Martin Jarvis) struggles to get over a three-year creative block. Joanna Van Gy-seghem plays his estranged wife.

Vaudeville Theatre Strand WC2 (01-836 99875645) 7.30. Sat 5.00 8.30. Wed mat 2.30. E7.50-E15. TubeBR: Charing Cross.

(A) AN IDEAL HUSBAND Oscar Wilde's comedy of love, corruption and intrigue, with Jeremy Sinden and Delia Lindsay. Westminster Theatre Palace Street SW1 (01-834 02834cc 834 0048) 7.45. Sat 3 00 7.45, Wed 2.00 7.45, TubeBR: Victoria. (A) TO KILL A MOCKINO BIRD Harper Lee's Deep South drama, starring Alan Dobie and Hildegard Neil. Mermaid Theatre Puddle Dock EC4 (01-236 5568) 7.30, Wed 2.00 7.30.

Sat 3.00 7.30. (D) TubeBR: Blacktriars. (A) LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS Neil Simon's middle-aged leap into attempted adultery, in a production directed by Christopher Sand-ford and starring Bruce Montague as the would-be Don Juan. Strand Theatre Aldwych WC2 (01-836 5190cc 836 4143) 7.30, Sat 4.30 8 8.00. Sun 4 00.

E8-E15. Tube: Covent GardenCharing Cross. (A) LES LIAISONS DANQEREUSES Deservedly acclaimed dramatization by Christopher Hampton of Laclos's novel revealing decadence and sexual corruption amongst 18th century French aristocracy. Ambassadors Theatre West Street WC2 (01-836 61 11cc 836 1171) 7.30, Wed 3 00 8 7.30. Sat 4.00 8 8.00, E7.50-C13.50.

Wed mat (D) Tube: Leicester Square. (S) C'est la belle farce FEYDEAU'S A Flea In Her Ear, one of the big hits of the Olivier regime at the Old Vic, returns to the same address in a new production by Richard Jones. Jim Broadbent doubles as an upright but impotent insurance broker and a drunken hotel porter. By a strange coincidence, there is more French farce at Greenwich Theatre with the arrival of the Derby Playhouse production of La Biche's The Piggy Bank in a version by C. P.

Taylor. Susan Todd directs this story of a group of provincials who empty the contents of their china piggy and head for Paris. Bernard Lloyd, Susan Colverd, Barry McCarthy lead the cast. Dame Judi Bench's Renaissance Theatre Company production of John Osborne's Look Back In Anger, so far seen only in charity performances, comes into the Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue for a four-week season with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson heading the cast. Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer and Timberlake Wer-tenbaker's Our Country's Good return to the Royal Court after a triumphant Australian tour.

Max Stafford-Clark directs a largely new cast, including Amanda Redman, Clive Russell and Julien Wadham. People Show Number 94 LES MISERABLES Blockbuster musical set around the barricades of the French Revolution. Palace Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue Wl (01-434 0909) 7.30. Thur 8 Sat 2.30 7.30. E5-E20.

Thur mat Tube: Piccadilly Circus. (R) LETTICE AND LOVAGE Dotty, endearingly English comedy by Peter Shaffer, with Carole Shelley and Helen Ryan. Globe Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue Wl (01-437 3667cc 741 9999) 7.45. Sat 3.00 8 7.45, E7.50-E15. (D) Tube: Piccadilly Circus.

(S) LOOK BACK IN ANOER See Critics' Choice. Lyric Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue Wl 101-437 3686cc 434 1050) Opens Aug 7 at 8.00. E6.50-E16.50. Tube: Piccadilly Circus. A MADHOUSE IN OOA Vanessa Redgrave and Rupert Graves are among the cast of Martin Sherman's new play, a web of political, personal and artistic deceptions spun out in the Greek Islands.

Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue W1 (01-437 26634) 7.45. Wed 8 Sat 3.00 8 7.45. E6.50-E15. Tube: Piccadilly Circus. (A) THE MAN OF MODE With Simon Russell Beale as the eponymous fop.

Also with Joe Me-lia and Miles Anderson. The Pit Barbican Centre EC2 (01-638 8891) 7.30. Sat 2.00 8 7.30. 11. matinee 9.50.

Tube: BarbicanMoorgate. (R) THE MARCH ON RUSSIA David Storey's new play capturing life in England today. Lindsay Anderson directs. With Bill Owen and Constance Chapman. National Theatre! Lyttelton South Bank SE1 (01-928 2252) 7.45.

Sat 2.15 8 7.45. (D) TubeBR: Waterloo. (S) M. BUTTERFLY John Dexter stylishly directs this culture-clash love story, based on the true story of a 20-year affair between a French diplomat and a Chinese opera was not all she appeared to be. Leaves you cool but intrigued.

Anthony Hopkins plays the blinkered Frenchman. Shaftesbury Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue WC2 (01-379 5399) 8.00, Wed 8 Sat 3.00 8 8.00. E7.50-E16.50. () Tube: HolbornTottenham Court Road. (S) ME AND MV QtRL Cheerfully old-fashioned Cockney musical, with Gary Wilmot ingenuously tackling the gag-strewn script and Jessica Martin a charming Sal.

Adelphl Theatre Strand WC2 (01-836 76112) Mon-Fri 7.30. Wed 2.30 8 7.30, Sat 4.00 8 8.00. E7.50-C17.00. (D) Tube: Charing Cross. (S) THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Peter Hall's sure-footed production, with a low-key, irony-laced Shylock from Dustin Hoffman.

Sterling performances also from Geraldine James, Leigh Lawson and Nathaniel Parker. Phoenix Charing Cross Road WC2 (01-240 9661cc 836 2294) 7.30. Thur Sat 2.00 8 7.30. Tube: Leicester SquareTottenham Court Koad. (R) METROPOLIS Nice sets, lively performances Judy Kuhn and Brian Blessed are particularly striking but inexplicably middle-of-the-road music and lyrics, in this stage version of the classic Fritz Lang movie of the twenties.

Piccadilly Theatre Denman Street Wl (01-867 1118CC867 1111) 8.00. Wed Sat 3.00 8 8.00, E8-E21. Tube: Piccadilly Circus. (A) THE MOUSETRAP Agatha Christie's who's-still-doing-it. St Martin's Theatre West Street WC2 (01-836 1443) 8.00.

Tuo 2.45 8 8.00. Sat 5.00 8.00. E5-E13. Tube: Leicester Square. (S) Michael Bllllngton In London struggle of the residents of the Hawes Street area of Tunstall to resist redevelopment.

Directed by Bob Eaton and with Graham Fellows in the cast, it opens at the New Vic on Wednesday. Donald Breed's new play, Veterans' Day, which opened in Newcastle upon Tyne this week with Michael Gambon and Jack Lemmon, moves to the Manchester Palace from Monday on its pre-West End tour; and the Bill Ken-wright tour of Hair comes to the Manchester Opera House. El Gran Circo Teatro, the Chilean company, is in Manchester this weekend. The Green Room are staging Roberto Parra's La Negra Ester in a tent at the Castlefield Roman Fort site, Liverpool Road, tonight and tomorrow. CHICHESTER CLOUD NINE Caryl Churchill's witty and sharp look at sexual politics moves from Victorian Africa to 1970s London.

David Leveaux directs. Minerva Studio Theatre Oaklands Park (0243-781312). LONDON ASSURANCE High spirited comedy by Dion Bou-cicault (who also wrote The Shaughraun) directed by Sam Mendes. Cast includes Paul Ed-dington and Angela Thome. Chichester Featival Theatre Oak-lands Park (0243-781312).

EDINBURGH MEASURE FOR MEASURE Kate Carside plays the virginal Isabella, Raad Rawi is Angeio in this production directed by Robert J. Carson. Royal Lyceum Grmdlay Street (031-229 9697). EXETER A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL Ayckbourn 's crafted comedy of adultery and small-town mores. Northcott Theatre Stocker Road 10392-54853).

GUILDFORD THE YOUNO IDEA Noel Coward's comedy has a go at happy families, when a brother and sister attempt to reunite their estranged parents. With Una Stubbs. Honor Blackman and William Lucas. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Miilbrook (0483-60191). HULL PLAYING AWAY The ageing hippy is put under the microscope in David Llewellyn's flower-power to nuclear power play, directed by John Godber.

Spring Street Theatre Spring Street (0482-23638). LANCASTER THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Williamson Park is put to the best possible use with this promenading production by the Duke's Theatre of Kenneth Grahame's toady tale. Williamson Park Wyredale Road (0524-66645). LEICESTER DAMES AT SEA Bonnie Langford brings her grin to the Leicester stage in Tim Flavin's production of this classic Broadway musical. Haymarket Theatre Belgrave Gate (0533-539797).

LIVERPOOL SHIRLEY VALENTINE Willy Russell's witty and warm tale of a frustrated Liverpudlian housewife. With Paula Wilcox. Liverpool Playhouse Williamson Square (051-709 8363). ANSELM KIEFER Kiefer's paintings, photographs and marks upon lead stand as monuments to a dead culture irrecoverable but inescapable; he is a darker Steiner. Anthony d'Offay Denng Street Wl (01-499 4100) Mon-Frr 10.00-5 30.

Sat 10.00-1.00 (until Aug 19), free. Tube Bond StreetOxford Circus. THE GREEN AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL An exhibition in aid of the Camley Street Natural Park at Kings Crost. due, courtesy of BR, to become part of Europe's largest hole. Artists involved include John Swannell, Max Forsythe and Gary Woods.

Special Photographers Company Kensington Park Road W11 (01-221 3489) Mon-Sat 10.00-6.30 (until Aug 12). tree. Tube: Ladbroke Grove. NJOQU TOURAV A Gambian artist in a distinctively African tradition of surrealism, addressing Western images of Africa as well as contemporary issues facing Gambian society. Africa Centre King Street WC2 (01-836 1973) Mon-Fri 10.00-6.00.

Sat 10.00-4.00 (until Sept 3). free. Tube: Covent GardenLeicester Square. PEDRO PROENCA Proenca is a young Portugese artist with a growing reputation and a taste for a little light cultural sabotage. Frith Street Galery Frith Street Wl (01-494 1550) Tue-Sat 10.00-6.00 (until Aug 26).

free. Tube: Leicester Square Outside London EDINBURGH THE CARRYING. STREAM A photographic exhibition drawing on an archive of more than 10.000 prints built up by the School of Scottish Studies since its foundation in 1951 as a centre for the preservation and study of oral history and 'unofficial' culture. Netherbow Arts Centre High Street (031-556 9579) Mon-Sat 10.00-4.30. 6.00-9.00 (until Sept 30).

free. NICOLA HENLEY Calico hangings: painted, stitched and collaged observations of birds. Scottish Gallery George Street (031-225 5955) Mon-Fri 10.00-6.00. Sat 10.00-1.00 (until Aug 8). free.

QR ASM ERE LAKE ARTISTS SOCIETY The society's annual exhibition feauring almost 300 pieces, among them a number of stone carvings by Jose fin a de Vasconcellos. whose work is to be seen in any number of Cathedrals throughout Britain. The Hall Mon-Sat 10.00-5 30. Sun 2.00-5.30 (until Sept 7), free. LIVERPOOL W.R.

StCKERT Forty-five drawings and paintings from the period 1890-1942 by one of the greatest of modern British artists. Tate Gallery Liverpool Albert Dock (051-709 3223) Tue-Sun 11.00-7.00 (until spring 1990). free. PRESTON MAKONDE: WOODEN SCULPTURE FROM EAST AFRICA An exhibition of carvings by the Makonde of Mozambique, handling space, the body and concepts of society with unparalleled assurance. Harris Museum and Art Gallery Market Square (0772-58248) Mon-Sat 10.00-5.00 (until Aug 12).

free. PWLLHELI DAVID TRESS Inspired principally by the Pembrokeshire landscape. Tress paints in a range of conventions; his combinations of watercolour or gouache and ink have a particular immediacy and economy. Oriel Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw (0758-740763) Mon-Sun 10.00-6.00 (until Sept 2), free. Motor Sport News.12.0 pm Surfer Magazine.

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3.0 News Update. 4.0 Money-line 4.30) 8.0 News Update How yon gonna keep 'em down entitled Farrago a Jazz Cabaret arrives at the Hackney Empire; Dion Bouci-cault's The Shaughraun returns once more to the Olivier Theatre; Cry of Asia arrives at the Riverside Studios. Recommended- Some Americans Abroad (the Pit, next Wednesday to Saturday): Richard Nelson's sharp comedy; strong performances from Anton Lesser and Simon Russell. The Secret Rapture (Lyttel-ton, today until Monday): Susan Tracy and Diana Hard-castle head the new cast in David Hare's merciless dissection of Thatcherism. Single Spies (Queen's): Alan Bennett's excellent double-bill on the pathos of exile and the enigma of art with Clive Francis as Guy OVER MV DEAD BODV Limp and lifeless so-called comedy-thriller, which even Donald Sinden, June Whitfield and Frank Middlemass fail to resuscitate.

Savoy Theatre Strand WC2 (01-836 88889cc 836 0479) 8.00. Thur 8 Sat 3.00 8 8.00. E7.50-E15. (D) Tube: Charing CrossEmbankment. (A) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Theatrical phenomenon from Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Dave Wil-letts wears the mask. Her Majesty's Theatre Haymarket SW1 (01-839 2244) 7.45, Wed 8 Sat 3.00 8 7.45. E7.50-E20. Tube: Piccadilly Circus. (R) THE RECRUITING OFFICER See Critics' Choice.

Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square SW1 (01-730 1745cc 836 2428) 8.00, E4-E12. Tube: Sloane Square. (A) RUN FOR YOUR WIFE Ray Cooney's enduring marital Whitehall Theatre Whitehall SW1 (01-867 1119cc 867 1111) 8.00. Sat 5.30 8 8.30. Thur 2.30 8 8.00.

E5-E13. TubeBR: Charing Cross. (A) SCHISM IN ENGLAND Calderon de la Barca's 17th century classic which shows Henry VIII's marriage to Ann Boleyn from a Spanish. Catholic perspective. John Burgess directs this new translation by John Clifford.

National Theatret Cottesloe South Bank SE1 (01-928 2252) 7.30. Sat 2.30 8 7.30. 8.50. (D) TubeBR: Waterloo. (S) THE SECRET OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Jeremy Brett and Edward Hard-wicke take their TV roles to the stage in Jeremy Paul's revealing look at the character behind Conan Doyle's hero.

Wyndham's Theatre Charing Cross Road WC2 (01-867 1116CC867 1111) 8.00. Wed 3.00 8 8.00, Sat 5.30 8 8.30. E5.50-E13.50. Tube: Leicester Square. (A) THE SHAUGHRAUN See Critics' Choice.

National Theatre: Olivier South Bank SE1 (01-928 2252) Opens Aug 10 at 7.15. (D) TubeBR: Waterloo. (S) SHIRLEY VALENTINE Willy Russell's affectionate and perceptive comedy about a frustrated Glaswegian housewife who escapes to a Greek island returns to the West End with an immaculate performance from Hannah Gordon. Duke of York's Theatre St Martin's Lane WC2 (01-836 5122cc 836 9837) 8 00. Thur 3.00 8 8.00, Sat 5.00 8 8.00, (D) Tube: Leicester Square Charing Cross.

(A) SINOIN' IN THE RAIN Tommy Steele splashes through the puddles of this lavish stage version of the great MGM musical. Palladium Argyll Street Wl (01-437 73734) 7.30. Wed 8 Sat 2.45 8 7.30. E3.75-E16.S0. (D) Tube: Oxford Circus.

(A) SINGLE SPIES Alan Bennett elegantly indulges the English taste for spies with this double-bill of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. Bennett and Clive Francis star, with hilarious support from Prunella Scales. Queen's Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue W1 (01-734 11667) B.00, Fri 8 Sat 6.00 8 8.45. E6-E15. Tube: Piccadilly Circus.

(S) STARLIGHT EXPRESS Andrew Lloyd Webber's high-tech roller-skating musical. Apollo Victoria Wilton Road SW1 (01- 828 86656) 7.45. Tue 8 Sat 3.00 8 7.45. E7.50-E19.50. (D) TubeBR: Victoria.

(S) STEEL MAGNOLIAS An evening of enjoyably acid one-liners mixed with a touch of Southern schmaltz, in this American comedy set in a Louisiana beauty parlour. The cast includes Maggie Steed, Rosemary Harris and Joely Burgess and Prunella Scales asHM. Robin Thorn bar In Manchester ROCK nostalgia musicals seem to be in with audiences at the moment. After the success of In The Midnight Hour last September, the Bolton Octagon is to follow it this year with Choo Choo Ch'Boogie which will run over Christmas and is based on the music of Louis Jordan. And the Oldham Coliseum's Hold Tight! It's Sixties Night has been picked up for a Vanessa Ford tour.

Now the New Victoria in North Staffordshire comes up with Good Golly Miss Molly by Bob Eaton. Set in the present day with flashbacks to the fifties, the storyline is inspired by the Richardson. Julia McKenzie directs. Lyric Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue W1 (01-437 3686cc 434 1050) 8.00, Sat 5.00 8 8.30. Thur 3.00 8 8.00, E5-E15.

Tube: Piccadilly Circus. (A) THE SWAGGERER Rollicking Roman comedy by Plau-tus. with Bernard Bresslaw in the title role. Music by Carl Davis. Open Air Theatre Regent's Park NW1 (01-486 2431cc 486 1933) 7.45, Thur 8 Sat 2.30 8 7.45.

E4.50-E11. (D) Tube: Baker Street. (S) THE TEMPEST A crystal-clear Tempest from Nicholas Hytner. bathed in the limpid light of David Fielding's beautiful set. The intellectual fervour of John Wood's Prospero should not be missed he is humane, fierce and magical.

Barbican Theatre Barbican Centre EC2 (01-638 8891) 7.30, Sat 2.00 8 7.30. (D) Tube: BarbicanMoorgate. (S) TWELFTH NIGHT An Oxbridge-set Illyria in John Godber's production of Shakespeare's comedy of confusion, for Hull Truck. Donmar Warehouae Earlham Street WC2 (01-240 8230cc 379 6565) 8.00, Thur 2.30 8 8.00. Sat 4.00 8 8.00, E7-10.

cones 1 off. Thur mat 6, Sat mat 6-9. Tube: Leicester Square. (A) THE WOMAN IN BLACK An empty and shuttered old house shrouded in mist aptly sets the scene for Susan Hill's chilling ghost story. Fortune Theatre Russell Street WC2 (01-836 22389) 8.00.

Tue 3.00 8 8.00. Sat 4.00 8 8.00. E7-E15. Tube: Covent GardenHolborn. (A) Outside London BATH DRACULAFRANKENSTEIN The rip-roaring New Vic company brings its mapcap humour to bear on this latest horror double-bill.

Dracula plays Monday to Wednesday, Frankenstein Thursday to Saturday. Theatre Royal Sawclose (0225-448844cc 448861). BOLTON CHOO CHOO CH'BOOGIE See Critics' Choice. Octagon Theatre Howell Croft South (0204-20661). CANTERBURY THE MYSTERY PLAYS A cast of hundreds and Peter Bark-worth as God.

in what could hardly be a more suitable setting. Booking on 0227-455600. Canterbury Cathedral. Ron Cook in The Recruiting Court after Australian tour E2 TsBB" THE BARTERED BRIDE East Berlin's Komische Oper continues its Covent Garden residency with a 1985 staging of Smetana's comic opera by the controversial Harry Kupfer, chief producer for the company since 1981. Royal Opera House Covent Garden WC2 (01-240 10661911) 7.30.

2.50-75. Tube: Covent Garden. VENUS AND ADONIS John Blow's masque for the delectation of Charles the Second in a concert performance from the London Baroque directed by Charles Medlam. with soloists Nancy Ar-genta (Cupid), Lynne Dawson (Venus) and Stephen Varcoe (Adonis). St Paul's Church Wilton Place Sw7 (01-589 8212) 10.00.

2 (Prommers). C5 (unreserved seats). Tube: Hyde Park Corner. Outside London BUXTON L'lTAUANA IN LONDRA First of two early Cimarosa operas at Buxton this year, in a new production by Jamie Hayes. American Joyce Guyer joins an otherwise British cast including Susan Bullock, Christopher Gillett and Steven Page.

Opera House Water Street (0298-72190) 7.45. 6.50-25. BALLET SPECTACULAR The principals and soloists of the Bolshoi get to show what they're made of in this programme of challenging extracts from, amongst others, Don Quixote. Le Corsaire, La Bayadere and Coppelia. London Coliseum St Martin's Lane WC2 (01-836 3161cc 240 5258) 7.30.

8.50-E55. Tube: Leicester Square Charing Cross. Sky Movies Astra192EAW1 1.43550 GHz 2.0 pm Wind In the Willows An animated version of Badger. Mole and Mr Toad. 4.0 Patty Flnm A comedy about a Sydney boy.

Starring Bert Newton. 6.0 Maxle (1986). Screwball comedy about the ghost ol a 20s film star who takes over the body ot Glenn Close. 8.0 How to Marry a MttUonatre (1953): Sparkling comedy with Marilyn Monroe. Betty Grable.

Lauren Bacall and William Powell. 10.0 The Pfck-Up Artist (1987). Comedy-drama with Dennis Hopper. 11.30 The Boys Next Door (1985): Nihilistic thriller when a nightmare joyride turns into a brutal murder spree. With Maxwell Caulield.

1.0 The HKchhfkeri Video Oate: Tate ot terror. With Gregg Henry. 1.30 Star 80 (1983): Lurid melodrama about starlet Dorothy Stratten. murdered by hustler Paul Snider. With Mariel Hemingway and Carroll Baker.

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10.30 Sky by Day. 11.30 A Problem Shared. 12.0 Another World. 12.58 General Hospital. 1.DO As the World Turns.

2.48 Loving. 3.18 The Lucy Show. 3.46 Lady Lovely Locks. 4.0 Countdown. 8.0 The Young Doctors.

8.30 Three's Company. 8.0 Sky Star Search. 7.0 Sale of the Century. 7.30 Black Sheep Squadron. 8.30 Film: The White Lions.

10.30 Jameson Tonight. 11.30 Life's Most Embarrassing Moments. 12.30 Close. Sky News Astra19.2EW11.376 GHz Sky News on the Hour every hour. Plus: 8.30 em European Business Channel.

11.30 Our World. 12.30 pm 1.30 NBC Today. 2.30 Beyond 2000. 3.30 Good Health. 4.30 Our World.

6.0 Live at Five. 8.30 Beyond 2000. 7.30 The Reporters. 8.30 The Frank Bough Interview. 0.30 Newsline.

10.30 The Reporters. 11.30 NBC Nightly News. 12.30 am The Frank Bough Interview. 1.30 Newsline. 2.30 The Reporters.

3.30 Frank Bough Interview. 4.30 Newsline, 8.30 Beyond 2000. Euroeport Astra 19.2'EH1 1.333 GHz 10.30 am Grand Prix Tennis. 11.30 Officer; back at The Royal success: see Critics' choice.