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THE GUARDIAN Wednesday January 24 1990 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE 45 Viviana Durante; La Fille Mai Gardee debut: see Critics' choice Anthony Green; paintings retrospective, Scunthorpe Museum: see Critics' choice 1 HAVE Timely UK premiere of Hungarian Dlavwrieht Julius Hav's olav. set in Waghtang Matchavariani makes his British opera conducting debut. Theatre Royal Hope Street (041-331 1234) 7.15. View of the new decade a heroic celebration of The Battle Of Lepanto. Almeida Theatre Almeida Slreet N1 (01-359 4404) 8.00.

Sat 4.00 8.00. E4.50-E12.50. Tube: Angel. STREETWALKER AN OPERA New music theatre piece inspired by a series of Hogarth engravings, about the steamingly corrupt London of the 18th century. Bush Theatre Shepherds Bush Green W12 (01-743 3388) Tue-Sun 8.00, 6, cones 4.

Tube: Shepherds Bush. VALUED FRIENDS Stephen Jeffreys's comedy about friendship and the property market returns for a season, with a cast including Josie Lawrence and Jimmy Mulville. Hampstead Theatre Avenue Road NW3 (01-722 9301) 8.00. Sat 4.00 8.00, 5-8. Tube: Swiss Cottage.

KSBlEPialP I Tim Hilton Corpulent image one of Martin Parr's photographs of middle class Britain in his new exhibition. The Cost Of Living, at the Photographers' Gallery: see Critics' choice Mary dark The Ballet du Nord from Roubaix, a leading French regional company, can be seen at the Derngate, Northampton, from next Tuesday until February 3. They bring two programmes: Peter and the Wolf with Carnival of the Animals; and Balanchine's Serenade with Piaf: Les Mots d'Amour, which is choreographed by company director Alfonso Cata. Box office 0604 24811. Rambert Dance Company give their first performance of Merce Cunningham's beautiful Doubles at Birmingham Repertory Theatre next Tuesday on a programme with Alston's Pulau Dewata and Trisha Brown's Opal Loop.

Box office 021 236 4455. Rosemary Butcher and architect Zaha Hadid start a regional tour of art galleries next Monday at 21 South Street Gallery, Reading. Sue Maclennan's Dance Company start their spring tour on Friday at Bristol Dance Centre. the village of Tiszazug, 1929. Janice noneyman airects.

The Pit Barbican Centre EC2 (01-638 8891) 7.30. 8.50. Tube: Barbican Moorgate. (A) JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL A magnificent portrayal of the raffish raconteur and Low Life columnist by Peter O'Toole, in Keith Wa-terhouse's new play. Ned Sherrin directs.

Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue W1 (01-437 2663) 8.30, Sat 5.30 8.45, E5-E15 Tube: Piccadilly Circus. (S) THE LIAR Corneille's 17th century comedy stresses the liar as showman, getting a thrill out of walking the edge between disaster and success. Alex Jennings plays the dashingly mendacious Dorante. Desmond Barrit his portly valet. Jonathan Miller The Old Vic Waterloo Road SE1 (01-928 7616) 7.30.

Wed 2.30 7.30. Sat 4.00 7.45. E7-C15. (0) TubeBR: Waterloo. (A) LONDON ASSURANCE Dion Boucicault's Victorian farce, about elderly lustings after young flesh and cash, in a mannered rendition by Sam Mendes.

Paul Ed-dington plays the self-deceiving, foppish Sir Harcourt Courtly, Angela Thome' the wonderfully-named Lady Gay Spanker. Haymarket Theatre Haymarket SW1 (01-930 9832) 8.00. Thur 3.00 8.00. Sat 4.00 8.00. E6-E16.

() Tube: Piccadilly CircusCharing Cross. (A) MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM Powerful examination of black oppression and white supremacy set in a 20s Chicago recording studio, where the white owner squeezes every last drop out of his black musicians, including the wily and indomitable blues singer. Ma Rainey (Carol Woods). National Theatre! Cottesloe South Bank SE1 (01-928 2252) 7.30. mats Sat 5 Wed 2.30.

8.50. ID) TubeBR: Waterloo. (R) NOEL AND OERTIE Sheridan Morley has put together this "entertainment with words and music" by Noel Coward. Patricia Hodge plays Gertrude Lawrence, with Simon Cadell as Coward. Comedy Theatre Panton Street SW1 (01-930 2578cc 839 1438) 8.00.

Wed 3.00 8.00. Sat 6.00 8.45. E5.50-E16. (D) Tube: Piccadilly CircusLeicester Square. (S) OSCAR WILDE, DIVERSIONS AND DELIGHTS The fruity rumble and enunciated vowels of Donald Sinden do their best with this evening of Wildean aphorisms and bon mots, set during Wilde's final years of exile.

Playhouse Theatre Northumberland Avenue WC2 (01-839 4401) 8.00. 5-15. Tube: Embankment. (A) OUR COUNTRY'S OOOD Timberlake Wertenbaker's heartwarming, thought-provoking play, set in an Australian convict colony in 1789. An officer with liberal leanings is determined to produce Far-quhar's The Recruiting Officer using a convict cast.

Garrick Theatre Charing Cross Road WC2 (01-379 6107) 8.00. Fri Sat 5.00 6 8.15, E5-E15. (Fri mat all seats 7.50). Tube: Leicester Square. (A) PRIN Sheila Hancock is on wonderful form as a razor-sharp college principal and hater of the ordinary in both people and institutions.

Susie Blake plays her deputy and lover and David Howey the despised Director of Education. Lyrio Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue W1 (01-437 3686) 7.45. Wed 3.00 7.45. Sat 4.30 8.15. E5-E15.

Tube: Piccadilly Circus. (A) RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET A musical spoof on the 1956 sci-fi film, mixed with a bit of Shakespeare and rock 'n' roll. Cambridge Theatre Earlham Street WC2 (01-379 5299) 8.00, Fri Sat 5.00 5 8.30, E7.50-E15.50 (Fri mat all seats 7.50). (D) Tube: Covent Garden. (A) SALOME Berkoff extraordinary mind-expanding vision of Oscar Wilde's extraordinarily opulent play, with Berkoff himself playing Herod.

Phoenix Charing Cross Road WC2 (01-240 9661cc 836 2294) 8.00. Sat 5.00 6 8.15, E6-E15. Tube: Leicester SquareTottenham Court Road. (A) SEVEN LEARS Harsh, remote "prequel" to Shakespeare's King Lear from Howard Barker, with Nicholas Le Prevost as the arrogant, intellectually soaring but emotionally stunted King, Jemma Redgrave as his young wife Clarissa. Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square SW1 (01-730 1745) 8.00.

E4-E15. Tube: Sloane Square. (A) THE SHAUQHRAUN Back comes the Irish rogue for another main-stage seasonal outing, in this colourful production of Dion Boucicault's 19fh century comedy. National Theatre) Olivier South Bank SE1 (01-928 2252) 7.15, mats Tue Sat, E15.50-E2. (D) TubeBR: Waterloo.

(S) KRAPP'S LAST TAPECATASTROPHE A Beckett double-bill performed by the acclaimed Beckett actor David Warrilow. and directed by Antoni Libera. Riverside Studios Crisp Road W6 (01-748 3354) 8.00. 7.50, cones 5.50. Tube: Hammersmith.

MERRV-GO-ROUNDi A CHEKHOV QUARTET An evening of four of Chekhov's lesser-known pieces: A Moscow Hamlet; Swan Song; Accounts; On The Harmfulness Of Tobacco. New End Theatre New End, Heath Street (01-794 0022) Tue-Sun 8.00. 6. Fri Sat 6.50. Tube: Hampstead.

POP EYE IN EXILE David Glass's new mime ensemble with a staging of the famous comic strip. Place Theatre Dukes Road WC1 (01-387 0031) Tue-Sat 8pm, Sat mat at 3.00, 6, cones 4, mat 5, child 3. Tube: Euston. IN PURSUIT OP THE ENGLISH Likable story based on Doris Les-sing's semi-autobiographical novel about a young South African woman arriving in the friendly chaos of post-war London. Lyrlo Studio King St W6 (01-741 2311) 8.00, Sat 4.30 8.00.

Tube: Hammersmith. SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION Wonderfully muscular theatre from Howard Barker. Glenda Jackson plays the brilliant and uncompromising Renaissance painter Ga-lactia, commissioned by the Doge of Venice (Jonathan Hyde) to paint THE Guardian's daily ntartaln- nrMnU guide is supplied by Listings Limited. All Information for inclusion should be sent to Listings Limited, 1 7 Ber- ners 51, London W1P 3DD (01323 2101). Different categories are high lighted In full each day along with a sewctfon of other eventsi Monday Highlights of the Week and forthcoming sventst Tuesday Classical muskOpe raj Wednesday Visual Arts Danes; Thursday CinemaTheatre (on two pagss Friday RockJazzCabaret Saturday Weekend events.

Visual Arts listing, Charles Hall; Dance listings, Claudia Stumpfl. 1 TRACY IICKIRLIY A MAI THOMAS Opens tomorrow. Beckerley's etchings and prints recall (unusually elegant) scientific doodlings. Thomas's painting grows out of the myth of the garden; the surfaces have their own delicate archaeology. Todd Gallery Portobello Road W10 (01-960 6209) Tue-Fri 11.00-6.00.

Sat 10.30-6.00 (until Feb 25). free. Tube. Ladbroke Grove. CLAUDKTTE JOHNSON Simple, assertive figurative drawing of considerable strength.

Tom Alton Centra Grove Crescent Road E15 (01-519 6818) Mon-Fri 10.00-10.00, Sat 5.00-12.00. Sun 11.00-5 30 (until Feb 17), free. TubeDocklands Light Railway: Stratford. SURFACE: PART TWO CRAIG WOOD A site-specific floor-piece in water and polythene (but no goldfish). Laura Genlllard Foley Street W1 (01-436 2300) Tue-Fri 12.OO-6.00.

Sat 1 1 (until Feb 10), tree. Tube: Oxford Circus. GRAHAM CROW LI PETER ELUS A JIM GRUNOV Opens tomorrow. See Critics' Choice. Galerie Degmar Upland Road SE22 (01-693 2708) Tue.

Wed Fri Sat 10.00-5.00 (until Feb 17), tree. BR: East Dulwich. MARTIN PARR: THE COST OF LIVING Parr, known for his vivid documentary photography, turns his attention to the world of privilege coffee mornings, hearty laughter, and a general shortage of chins. Photographers' Gallery Great New- port Street WC2 (01-831 1772) Mon-Sun 9.30-5.30 (until Feb 24). free.

Tube: Leicester Square. MICKV DONNELLY A COLIN SMITH Opens tomorrow. As an Ulsterman, Donnelly's use of Celtic imagery has political overtones which have not always worked to his advantage; Smith's figures exist in comfortable but unenviable isolation. Andereon O'Day Portobello Road W11 (01-221 7592) Tue-Sat 10.00-5.30 (until Feb 24), tree. Tube: Ladbroke Grove WORLD OF DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS With stands by 50 galleries, among them AustinDesmond, Chris Beetles.

Gillian Jason and the Redfern Gallery. Park Lane Hotel Piccadilly W1 (01-499 6321) Mon-Frl 11.00-8.00. Sat-Sun 1 1.00-7.00 (ends Sat). C6. Tube: Piccadilly.

EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS Opens tomorrow. Scottish artists appear to have a particular affinity for printmaking the exhibition offers a fair sample of established and emergent talent, including Blackadder, Conroy, Currie. How-son, Mclntyre and McLaren. Vanessa Devareux Gallery Blenheim Crescent W11 (01-727 7041) Tue-Fri 10.00-6.00. Sat 11.00-5.00 (until Feb 24), tree.

Tube: Ladbroke Grove. EUQINIO FERRETTI Opens Friday. See Critics' Choice. Nigel Greenwood Qallery New Burlington Street W1 (01-434 3795) Mon-Fri 10.00-6.00. Sat 10.00-1.00 (until March 3), free.

Tube: Piccadilly CircusOxford Circus. STEPHEN COOPER, JEFFREY DELLOW MALI MORRIS See Critics' Choice. Todd Soho Meard Street W1 (01-287 8195) Tue-Fri 12.00-6.00 (until Feb 9). tree. Tube: Tottenham Court Road Leicester Square.

YOUNG ARTISTS An exhibition dominated by oils and monoprints by Mark Francis, who seems to have taken a microscope to his more familiar landscapes to achieve unexpectedly robust and disciplined abstraction. New Academy Gallery Windmill Street W1 (01-323 4700) Mon-Fri 10.00-6.00, Sat 11 00 (until Feb 3). tree. Tube: Goodge Street. PAST PRESENT FUTURE Opens tomorrow.

See Critics' Choice. Tate Gallery Millbank SW1 (01-821 1313) Mon-Sat 10.00-5 50. Sun 2.00-5.50. free. Tube.

Pimlico. RICHARD LONG: WATER A STONES Opens tomorrow. Long's first showing in London since landing the Turner Prize. Anthony d'Offay Dering Street W1 (01-499 4100) Mon-Frl 10.00-5.30. Sat 10.00-1.00 (until Feb 24), free.

Tube: Bond StreetOxford Circus. Outside London ABERDEEN. MALCOLM MCCOiat AN ORKNEY DIARY Over-sized extracts relating to McCoig's summer as artist-in-resi-dence on Orkney, as well as his glowing contribution to the Island's nuclear debate. Peacock ArUp.ce Castle Street (0224-639539) Mon-Sat 9.30-5.30 (until Feb 28). free.

ABERYSTWYTH TRANSFORMATION: THE LEGACY OF AUTHORITY Contemporary paintings from the Soviet Union, where the conventions of academic painting and Stalinist propaganda prove fruitful ground for very beautiful and very vicious paintings. Aberystwyth Arts Centra Penglals Road (0970-622862) Mon-Sat 10.00-5.00 (until Feb BIRMINGHAM MIROl SCULPTURE Late bronzes, in which the onetime surrealist's familiar imagery is reworked with fresh energy and cheerful inelegance. Ikon Oallery John Bright Street (021-643 0708) Tue-Sat 10.00-6.00 (until Feb 24). tree. BRISTOL NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART An annual exhibition, highlighting ERIC CLAPTON One of rock's legends takes up his record-breaking residency.

The first gigs are with his bands, later gigs feature Robert Cray, Buddy Guy and (separately) the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore SW7 (01-589 82129485) 7.30. 13.50-17.50. Tube: High Street Kensington. HAVANA SAM After Mick Jones' BAD and Joe Strummer's solo work, the original Clash bassist Paul Simenon unveils his new band, sticking more to a more no-nonsense rock and roll style than his former colleagues.

The Borderline Goslert Yard, oft Charing Cross Road WC2 (01-497 22612) 8.00, 5. Tube: Leicester Square. PAUL MCCARTNEY Following last year's vinyl return to form with Flowers In The Dirt and a newly-adopted shade of green, the eminent ex-Beatie sets out on his first UK tour for over a decade. Not surprisingly his new stuff all but takes second place to a golden oldies showcase. Wembley Arena Empire Way (01-900 1234) 8.00, E15.50-E18.50.

Tube: Wembley Park. Outside London BIRMINGHAM SIMPLY RED British soul-pop at its most engaging, with Mick Hucknall's vocal excesses and egomania a pleasant change from the slick norm. National Exhibition Centre (021-780 4133) 7.30, ring for prices. BRIGHTON ICET Radical rapper best known for his soundtrack for the movie Colors, brings his show to the UK. Top Rank Suite West Street (0273-732627) 8.00, 7.50.

MANCHESTER ABDUL TEE JAVS ROKOTO Widely considered the most impressive African band on the circuit, led by slick guitarist Tee-Jay. Band on the Wall Swan Street (061-832 6625) 8.30. C5. cones 4. SHEFFIELD THE ALARM Strident rockers whose passion-fired U2-isms can be heard in their native Welsh on the alternative version of their last LP, ChangeNewid.

Sheffield City HaU Barkers Pool (0742-735295) 7.30. 7-8. AIRTO AND FLORA PURIM Husband and" wife, percussion and vocal team, with the accent on pressionist workouts and a base in Brazilian and free jazz forms. An exuberant and incredibly consistent pair, with Purim's flighty meanderings a constant delight, they are the darlings of young jazz dance fans. Ronnie Scott'a 47 Frith Street W1 (01-439 0747) 8.30.

10. mems 2. Tube: Tottenham Court Road. ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY Lauded New York singer attributed with everything from Ella's scat-ting and Anita Baker's "verve" to the fizz of Dom Perignon. Pizza on the Park 11 Knlghtsbndge SW1 (01-235 5550) 9.15 11.15.

7. Tube: Hyde Park Corner. IAN SHAW BAND Inventive vocalese-hotshot Shaw teams up with endlessly constructive instrumentalists, featuring Tony Remy's thoughtful compositions and responsive guitar. Vortex Jazz 139 Stoke Newlngton Church Street N16 (01-254 6516) 8.00. 3.

Tube: Manor House. SAX APPEAL Melodious line-up featuring Dave O'Higgins and Nigel Hitchcock. Prince of Orange 118 Lower Rd SE16 (01-237 9181) 7.30. 2. Tube: Surrey Docks.

Outside London CARDIFF KENNY WHEELER BIO BAND Revered trumpeter whose penchant for harmonic explorations found readier ears in Europe, assembles a big band including Norma Winstone and Julian Ar-guelles for his 60th birthday tour. St David's Hall The Hayes (0222-371236) 7.30. cones Kat Show. 6.30 Eurosport Menu 0.O Australian Open Tennis. 11.0 Eurosport.

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1.0 Prime News 2.0 Larry King. 3.0 News Update 4.0 Moneyline. etOi Newa update FROM tonight, and every night until next Tuesday, the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden dance the double bill of the Pas de Six from the Soviet showpiece Laurentia with Ashton's delectable La Fille mal Gardee. Some interesting casting. Tonight Stuart Cassidy is scheduled to dance his first Colas in Fille to the Lise of Hosalyn Whit-ten; tomorrow the gifted young couple Viviana Durante and Errol Pickford will make their debuts in these roles.

Wayne Sleep returns to the role of Alain next Monday and Tuesday. On Friday and next Tuesday Laurent Hilaire, a star of the Paris Opera Ballet, will dance the principal male role as a guest in Laurentia. He is billed to partner Darcey Bussell but check casting on 01-240 9815. 11.15 (FriSat). 4.25.

Tube: Notting Hill Gate. Lumlere, St Martin's Lane WC2 (01-379 3014cc 836 0691) Progs 1.00, 3.30, 6.05. 8.40. 11.15 (FriSat), 4.50 (cones 3.30). Tube: Leicester Square Chartng Cross.

ROSALIE GOES SHOPPING (15) (Percy Adlon, W.Ger 1989) 94 mms The second American film from the Munich-based director, Percy Adlon (Bagdad Cafe, Sugarbaby). and a third collaboration with the inimitable Marianne Sagebrecht as the wife of an Arkansas crop-sprayer. Armed with 37 credit cards she fulfills her family's wildest consumer dreams and again fills the screen with unmatched charm. Less coherent than Cafe and a little frayed at the edges. Cannon Shaftesbury Avenue WG2 (01-836 6279cc 836 8861) Progs 1.20 (not Sun).

3.40, 6.00. 8.20,, 4.50. Tube: Leicester SquareTottenham Court Road. Chelsea Cinema, King's Road SW3 (01-351 3742) Progs 2.25, 4.30, 6.40. 8.55, E3.80-E4.50.

Tube: Sloane Square. Screen on the Hill, Haverstock Hill NW3 (01-435-3366) Progs 2.55, 4.55, 7.05, 9.00. 11.15 (FriSat). 4. Tube: Belsize Park.

PARENTHOOD (15) (Ron Haward. US 1989) 124 mins (G) Steve Martin steers this busy, lightweight vehicle through the joys and miseries of parenting. There is little durability in the film's substance but a quicksilver script and uniformly good acting more than compensates. Cannon Baker Street NW1 (01-935 9772) Progs 2.25, 5.35. 8.15.

11.00 (Fri Sat), 4.50. Tube: Baker Street. Cannon Fulham Road SW10 (01-370 2636cc 373 6990) Progs 2.10. 6.10. 9.05, 4.50.

Tube: South Kensington. Cannon Oxford Street W1 (01-636 0310) Progs 2.00, 5.00. 8.15. 11.20 (Fri Sat), 4.50. Tube: Tottenham Court Road.

Cannon Shaftesbury Avenue WC2 (01-836 6279cc 836 8861) Progs 2.15. 5.05. 7.55. 4.50. Tube: Leicester SquareTottenham Court Road.

Notting Hill Coronet W11 (01-727 6705) Perfs 3.10. 5.40, 8.20, 3.50. Tube: Notting Hill Gate. Plaza, Lower Regent Street SW1 (01-200 0200) Progs 12.15, 3.00. 5.45.

8.30, 11.15 (FriSat), 4-5. Tube: Piccadilly Circus. SCEHES FROM THE CLASS STRUOQLE IN BEVERLY HILLS (18-) (Paul Bartel, US 1989) 102 mins (G) Hollywood's resident purveyor of bad taste Bartel (Eating Raoul) returns with a surprisingly genteel satire on Beverly Hills bed-hop- eflBfJBHBflrfTr ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELOSMARRINER More Mozart from Sir Neville and the Academy: the Haffner and Linz symphonies (Nos 35 and 36), and the Sinfonia Concertante in flat for violin and viola (lona Brown and the omnipresent Yuri Bashmet). Royal Festival Hall South Bank Centre S61 (01-928 8800) 7.30. E5-E16.

BRTube: Waterloo. HAYDN SERIES Continues the chamber portion with the Endellion String Quartet resuming its survey of Op 64 with No 2 in minor and No 3 in flat, and a strong vocal quartet (Patricia Rozario, Catherine Denley, Adrian Thompson and Richard Jackson) accompanied by Graham Johnson in the 13 partsongs of Aus des Ramlers Lyrischer Blumenlese. Queen Elizabeth Hall South Bank Centre SE1 (01-928 8800) 7.45. 4-8. BRTube: Waterloo.

MARGARET FINOERHUT The pianist with a flair for the unusual plays Suk's The Spring, Schubert's Four Impromptus D899. Paul Spicer's Sonata (first performance), Jvlartinu's Four Marionettes and Chopin's Andante spian-ato and Grand Polonaise. Wlgmore Hall Wigmore Street W1 (01-935 2141) 7.30. E4-E7. Tube: Bond StreetOxford Circus.

Outside London GLASGOW HANDEL'S SOLOMON Nicholas Kraemer conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Philharmonic Singers in this bright beacon among Handel oratorios, with soloists Lorna Anderson, Patrizia Kwella, Diana Montague, Michael Chance, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Michael George. CHy Hall Candleriggs (041-227 50155511) 7.30. E2.20-t9.20. LEEDS BENDA CLARINET TRIO Trios by Zemlinslcy and Brahms (in A minor Op 114), Chopin's Introduction and Polonaise Brillante Op 3 and Debussy's Premiere Rhapso-die for clarinet and piano. Leeds Institute Gallery Cookridge Street (0532-462453) 7.30, 2.50.

MM! HANSEL AND GRETEL Humperdinck's opera has the serious treatment it deserves in David Pountney's probing yet enchanting ENO production, with Alison Hag-ley and Christine Botes every inch as childlike as their now-familiar predecessors. Pauline Tinsley's WitchMother has the best line in manic gags for Act Two. and Donald Maxwell promises Wagnerian challenges just around the corner with a rich-voiced Father. James Holmes now conducts. London Coliseum St Martin's Lane WC2 (01-836 3161cc 240 5258) 7.30.

3-33. Tube: Leicester Square Charing Cross. Outside London GLASGOW BLUEBEARD'S CASTLEOEDIPUS REX Stefanos Laziridis, best known as the most striking opera designer in the business, twins a revival of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, which he co-directed for Scottish Opera last year, with his first solo venture in direction, a new production of Bartok's psyche-drama Bluebeard's Castle. Kathryn Harries sings bride number 8, Monte Jaffe (ENO's Lear last year) the strangely sympathetic Bluebeard. Sky Movies AslraM9.2'Eftt1 .43550 GHz 8.0 pm Satellite Shop ZA pm Proa Qlrlt Drama with Kerne Keane and Ellen Dunning 3.0 The Hoboken Cnleken Emergency! Comedy with Gabe Kaplan and Dick Van Patten 4.0 Roboux The Movtet Animated sci-ti adventure.

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2.30 The Reporters. 3.30 Frank Bough. 4.30 Newsline urosport Aslra19.2'E!H11 332 GHz Bjo am The World Business Report. 5.30 European Business channel. 6.0 the THE BRITISH Art Show 1990 opens this morning in the splendid, newly refurbished McLellan Galleries in SauchiehaU Street, Glasgow.

Billed as an opportunity to see the latest developments, the show features work in all media by 40 artists who are under the age of 35. They come from all over the country, there are roughly as many female and male exhibitors, and a high proportion belong to minority groups. This exhibition (which will come south to Leeds and the Hayward later in the year) will set the tone for the art of the next decade. Meanwhile, the ambitious rehang of the Tate Gallery collections hopes to connect Hogarth with Gilbert and George, Blake with Bacon, Constable with Richard Long. The complex and argumentative reshuffling of the historic and modern rooms may take time to assimilate, but will surely provoke much discussion.

The gallery is closed today, but all will be revealed tomorrow. The functions of the modern museum are displayed and examined this week at the Grand Palais in Paris, where SIME, the Salon International Des Musees et des Expositions, has its second fair. All European countries have contributed to this colloquium, though the British participation looks half- the creativity of children, particularly happily expressed in the sculpture this year. Royal West of England Academy Queens Road (0272-735129) Mon-Sat 10.00-5.30 (until Feb 16). free.

EDINBURGH JOHN SWAHNELLi PORTRAITS IN FASHION Photographs of 25 of the great if not necessarily good, including John Hurt, who got him drunk, Grace Jones, who kept him waiting, and messrs Bailey, Donovan and Lichfield, who walked off the set after the first shot. Scottish National Portrait Oallery Queen Street (031-556 8921) Mon-Sat 1O.OO-5.0O. Sun 2.00-5.00 (until April 2), free. OTHER THAN ITSELF John Berger, Karen Knorr. Olivier Richon and Marie Yates take the photograph's dependence on something other than itself as the starting point for an investigation of metaphors, emblems and fictions.

Still. Gallery High Street (031-557 1140) Tue-Sat 11.00-5.30 (until Feb 10), free. GLASGOW THE 3RD BRITISH ART SHOW See Critics' Choice. McLellan Galleries SauchiehaU Street (041-227 5511) Mon-Sat 10.00-6.00. Thur 10.00-10.00), Sun (until March 11), 1.

DEGAS'S IMAGES OF WOMEN An investigation into Degas attitude to women, who are the subject of more than two thirds of his work. Durretl Collection Pollok Country Park, Pollokshaws Road (041-649 7151) Mon-Sat 10.00-5.00, Sun 12.00-8.00 (until Feb 25), free. MIDDLESBROUGH THE GRANDEUR OF NATURE Landscapes and seascapes from the 18th century to the present day, designed as a survey of attitudes. Middlesbrough Art Oallery Linthorpe Road (0642-247445) Tue-Sat 10.00-1.00. 2.00-6.00 (until Feb 24), free.

NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY ART FROM HAVANA Consuela Castaneda's Erotic Garden and Jose Bedia's sinuous wall drawings are outstanding in a show which draws much of its en ergy from a re-appraisal of African intiuences in the island culture. Bonlngton Gallery, NptHngham Polyteenhic Dryden Street (0602- 418418) Mon-Thur 9.00-5.00. Fri 9.00- 4.00. Sat 10.00-5.00 (until Feb 10). free.

PARIS THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL SALON OF MUSEUMS A EXHIBITIONS See Critics' Choice. Orand Palais, Oalerlaa MatJonale Ave Winston-Churchill (010331-42892313) Mon-Sun 10.00-7.00 (ends Sat). 45ff. SCUNTHORPE igeo-isae anthony qreen See Critics' Choice. Scunthorpe Museum A Art Gallery Oswald Road (0724443533) Mon-Sat 10.00-5.00.

Sun 2.00-5.00 (until March 4), free. LAURENTULA FILLS MAL GARDES See Critics' Choice. Royal Opera House Covent Garden WC2 (01-240 10861911) Today, tomorrow 7.30. Fri 8.00, Sat 7.30. Mon 7.30, Tues 8.00, E1-E41.

Tube: Covent Garden. Outside London BIRMINGHAM RAMBBRT DANCE COMPANY See Critics' Choice. Repertory Theatre Broad Street (021-236 4455) Opens Jan 30, 7.30. E4.50-E10.80. hearted.

Ends on Sunday. The Galerie Dagmar, a new venture in South London, used to be Graham Crowley's studio. He's been invited back, and from tomorrow shows recent paintings with Jim Grundy and Peter Ellis. At Todd Soho there are abstract paintings by Mali Morris, Jeff Dellow and Stephen Cooper. From Friday, Nigel Greenwood has an exhibition by the ingenious and mysterious painter Eugenio Fer-retti, and Martin Parr shows the latest set of his photographs that record the British way of life upper middle class in this case in a way unequalled by any contemporary lensman.

There's a thorough, fascinating retrospective exhibition of paintings by Anthony Green at the Scunthorpe Museum, a show that examines his use of mirrors, shaped canvasses and odd perspectives and demonstrates that he's not at all an eccentric academician rather a determined experimental realist. NORTHAMPTON BALLET DU NORD See Critics' Choice. Derngate Guildhall Road (0604-24811) Opens Jan 30. 7.30. READING Rosemary ButcherDI.

D2. 3D See Critics' Choice. 21 South Street South Street (0734-504911) Jan 29 at 2.30 8.00. E5.50. cones 4.50.

(G) On General Release A DRY WHITE SEASON (15) (Euzhan Palcy, US 1989) 107 mins A committed, occasionally powerful film set in the wake of the Soweto massacre. An implausibly naive white schoolteacher (Donald Sutherland) attempts to help his black servant's family find justice in the face of a corrupt and ruthless apartheid regime. A worthy project is somewhat undermined by a limited script which even a star cast, including an intriguing 15-minute cameo from Marlon Brando, has difficulty breaking through. Cannon Chelsea SW3 (01-352 5096) progs 1.35. 4.15, 7.20.

9.40. 4,50. Tube: Sloane SquareSouth Kensington. Screen on the Green, Upper Street N1 (01-226 3520) Progs 3.50. 6.20, 8.45, 11.15 (FriSat).

3.50. Tube: Angel Highbury Islington. FELLOW TRAVELLER (15) (Philip Saville. UK 1989) 97 mins (G) A blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter and former Communist Party member (Ron Silver) goes underground in the UK to escape the McCarthy witch hunts. An exceptional, original screenplay by Michael Eaton examines the personal and polemical demands of loyalty on its protagonist and the prevailing mythologies of the period.

A flat visualization crafted for the small screen by director Philip Saville (The Fruit Machine) is saved by a strong cast led by Hart Bochner, Imogen Stubbs and Daniel J. Travanti. Metro, Rupert Street W1 (01-437 0757) Progs 2.45 (not Sun). 4.45. 6.45.

8.45.. 4, cones 3.00. Tube: Piccadilly CircusLeicester Square. IN COUNTRY (15) (Norman Jewison, US 1S69) () Following the success of Moonstruck, Norman Jewison changes tack with the story of a maladjusted Vietnam veteran (Bruce Willis) and his irrepressible niece (Emily Lloyd). Sadly, Willis's one-dimensional performance proves as edious as Jewison's film proves parochial.

Cannon Fulham Road SW10 01-370 2836'cc 373 6990) Progs: 2.20 (not Sat Sun), 6.00, 9.00. 4.50. Tube: South Kensington. Cannon Pan ton Street SWT (01-930 0631) Progs: 2.10, 4.40. 7.25.

9.55. 4.50. Tube: Piccadilly Circus. Warner West End, Leicester Square WC2 (01-439 0791cc 494 3001) Progs 12.45 (not SatSun). 3.20 (not SatSun).

5.55. 8.30. 11.10 (FrlSat), E4. Tube: Leicester Square. JESUS OF MONTREAL (18) (Denys Arcanrj, Can 1989) 120 mins A troop of actors staging a controversial Passion Play for a local catholic church become latterday martyrs at the hands of a hypocritical Establishment.

Denys Ar-cand takes this potentially pretentious scenario and turns out the most accomplished Canadian release of the year by taming his polemic with a fine sense of irony and humour. Camden Plaza, Camden High Street NW1 (01-486 2443) Progs 1.00. 3.30. 6.05, 8.40. 4.

Mon 1st pert dally 2.80, cones 1.70. Tube: Camden Town. Gate Netting HHI W11 (01-727 4043) Progs 1.15 (not Sun), 3.45, 6.15. 8.45, ping. The fairly meek social prob- ing is nonetheless enjoyable and is informed Dy a uunuenan sense oi camp which diverts attention from the otherwise slim, if occasionally salty, one-dimensional humour.

The ensemble cast, led by Jacqueline Bisset, take to their caricatures with pleasing relish. Cannon Fulham Road SW10 (01-370 2636cc 373 6990) Progs 2.00. 6.00. 9.00, 4.50. Tube: South Kensington.

Cannon Haymarket SW1 (01-839 1527) Progs 1.20 (not Sun). 3.40. 6.05, 8.35. 11.15 (FrlSat), 4.50. Tube: Circus.

Cannon Tottenham Court Road W1 (01-636 6148) Progs 2.50, 5.35. 8.20. 11.15 (FriSat). 4.50. Tube: Tottenham Court Road.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (15) (Rob Reiner. US 1989) 95 mins Thirtysomething moves to the big screen. Rob Reiner's giddy adult drama involves much emotional navel-eazins and elossv neuroses. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are the cutesy couple who tmauy consummate a 12-year friendship. A shallow trek through territory already ploughed by Woody Allen.

Barbican Cinema, Silk Street EC2 (01-638 8891) Perfs 3.00 (Sun). 6.00. 8.30, 4, 3 cones. Tube: MoorgateBarbican. Cannon Chelsea SW3 (01-352 5096) Progs 1.40.

4.00. 7.20, 9.45. 4.50. Tube: Sloane SquareSouth Kensington. Odeon High Street Kensington W8 (01-602 6644cc 602 5193) Progs.

1.30, 3.55. 6.25. 8.55. 11.15 (FriSat, 4. cones 2 (not for eve perl).

Tube: High Street Kensington. Odeon Swiss Cottage NW3 (01-722 5905) Progs 1.50. 4.15. 6.30. 8.50.

4. Tube: Swiss Cottage. Rio Cinema E8 (01-254 6677) Progs: 5.00 (Sat), 7.00. 9.00. 3, cones 2.

BR: Dalston Kingsland. Warner. West End, Leicester Square WC2 (01-439 0791cc 494 3001) Progs 1.50. 4.05. 6.20, 8.35.

4. Tube: Leicester Square. (A) Seats at all prices. (S) Limited availability (R) Returns only. (D) Disabled access BENT Ian McKellen returns to the role he created in the 1979 production of Martin Sherman's powerful play, which starts in 30s Berlin and ends in the Nazi concentration camps.

National Theatre! Lyttetton South Bank SE1 (01-928 2252) 7.30. mat Sat 20 at 2.15, E15.S0-E2. (D) TubeBR: Waterloo. (R) The Rambert Dance Company perform Doubles by Merce Cunningham (above) at Birmingham: see Critics' choice.