Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 50

50 FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 1996 Reviews EVENING STANDARD FOR the first time in more than half a century the Royal Shakespeare Company launches its new season in the depths of autumn instead of spring rather more productions to be premiered through the winter months than in spring and summer This new idea leaves me cool-ish And the choice of the anonymous 16th century morality play Everyman presented in the Stratford studio ushers in the new dispensation with rather more of a whimper iper than a bang true the production is dir-Dle tt ected with notable theatrical flair Joseph Everyman in a premonition of his dying moments lies naked in a tin-bath before join- Everyman The Other Place Stratford NKHOUtSDEJONGH Alastair Muir ingin the wedding and ing festivities And in the midst of very high spirits that Josette Busheu-Mingo presenting Death as a fashionable femme fatale interrupts him with news of his imminent demise This much is thanks to the ingenious talent for modem interpolations WrestBog with pleasure: Joseph Ifydel and Josette BusheU-Htingo and imagination by two of de Complicity actors Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni But Everyman is a severely didactic and not very dramatic allegory which warns errant mankind in an age when the pleasure-principle was beginning to be eagerly grasped that worldly joys and riches are worthless vanities Death according to the grim message of Everyman would come to man like a bolt out of the blue reminding him that like an Edwardian boy scout he should always be prepared The anti-materialist alone exudes a fine religious fervour RSC Box office: 01789 295623 message with its condemnation of the hypocritical fairweather friends who leave Everyman in the dying lurch suits our own times Accordingly the directors go for a modem-dress surreal approach Designer Rosa Maggiora stages the play in some alluring Italianate limbo with a honey-coloured stone floor where the sounds of cicadas and churchbells are heard But when dolefUl and fearfi insufficiently fearful Everyman too light-hearted and flippant to make a deep impression Myra McFadyen plays the friend who sees Everyman through to his serene ending a state of mind which seems imposed by the author not achieved by the character And she begins his terminal journey and finds his friends Fellowship Goods and Kindred all unwilling to support him the acting style is MktgsiNo adequate it good irk very good kkk outstanding Xpoor STANDARD Name: (MrMrsMs) Address: Postcode: Please enrol me in the Theatre Music Club (Nocharge) performances on 26 and 27 November and 1 December Ring the box office on 0171 236 2211 quoting your membership number This week's gold draw provides two tickets to see Ollverl at the London Palladium with a bottle of champagne for the Interval The winning number Is: G1 01 102 The second draw provides two tickets to see Dark Tales at VICTORIA Chaplin and Jean Baptists Thlerre return to London with their magical Le Cerde Invisible for the Christmas season at the Mermaid Theatre All club members can buy two £1950 tickets for the price of one for the first week running from 26 November to 1 December Gold Card members will receive a free programme and free interval drink at the Arts Theatre The winning number Is: 33403 To claim the prizes ring Kim Smith on 0171 938 7429 before Tuesday To Join Theatre Club return the coupon For Gold card membership enclose a cheque for £10 payable to Evening Standard Existing Theatre Club members pay £750 for first Gold Card membership Please enrol me in the Theatre Music Club Gold Card (£10 annual membership charge) Make cheques payable to: Evening Standard Send this application together with a SAE to: The Secretary of the Evening Standard Theatre Music Club Northcliffe House 2 Derry Street W8 5EE CRITERION 369 1737344 4444 REDUCED SHAKESPEARE THEATRES FORTUNE 22383128033 EWAN JAMES HOOPER SIMMONS KINGS HEADS 1171 220 H1C THINK NO EVIL OPUS: MyLHivUKearthWDaai HjaSMSOOSuSJLSMlUUO ALMEIDA THEAT1E0171 359 4404 CYIANODE BERGERAC InhaMuitamdWGdi MoaStf 7J0SM MlSUelU Nw MEW LONDON Drury lane WQB0DI71-405 0072 OC 0171-404 407924hr 0171 344 44440171 420 OOOOGqa413351 14365588 TUiMnnHMVTowerRecoidi THE ANDREW LLOYD WEB8ERT5 ELIOT mERNAHONAUWAilD WINNING MUSICAL COMPANY ii THEW0MAN INBLACK APOLLO VICTORIA a 0171 416 6058 oc 24ha 0171344444401714200000 GnqH017l 41660750171 4133321 TknavHMVSnrcitTnrerlacarrii 'AadrtvLkrdVtttcti STARLIGHT EXPRESS THE FASTEST SHOW ON EARTH WlMeknicUennlSASd TkASt3paMete6roBSl2 ADELFHI 'ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S MASTERPIECE WbISUoinri SUNSET CATS Mated twSkrin Tkaerilmivi uicUbg ALBEIT THEATUI17I SO I7S 0171 344444 E7J0lfaMWedASd3J0 ENDS70M0RR0W UNCLEVANYA AMdCWUn phr far years' Mai Nowarrsu ISA YEAR LONDON PALLADIUM BOCC494 5620344 4444(51 Btreneha) 420 0000 Grpe3128000 mdMHBVTMReanli TONYAWAIDWINNING ROBERrUNDSAYBFAGM 'AMAJOR THEATRICAL EVENT Di Mel OLIVER! 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