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Page 16 THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH JANUARY 5, 1986 DAVID SUCHET LINDSEY DUNCAN FRANCES BARBER Excellent lago Exciting performance Redeemed production THEATRE FRANCIS KING A YEAR OF DANGER AND an upsurge in theatre 1985 was a year in which a lot was about money, with Peter Hall bleating piercingly about underfunding at the National. Since Peter Hall's bleat has become as much of an annual event as that of lambs on the Welsh hills, it might be thought survey this. But on this worth, recording in a occasion the bleat was followed by the temporary closing of the Cottesloe. There were some who regarded this decision as a convincing indictment of Government niggardliness to the arts. There were others, myself among them.

who wondered why, National could no longer afford to mount productions in it, this auditorium was not being offered to some of our brave, indigent small touring companies as a showcase for their wares. There those who wondered "whether there were not other, less dramatic economies among them (dare one say it?) a cut in Mr Hall's scale of remuneration that might have been made instead. When the Cottesloe opened again, it was first with a nineweek season of new plays, each given only a few performances, developed at the NT Studio under the direction of Peter Gill. This was followed by an acclaimed production Cherry Orchard." with a whole Pleiades of stars. Such a cast would have filled the or, indeed.

any West End theatre night after night. But since the Cottesloe is so small and since the performances are so few, only a tiny proportion of the potential audience will ever get tickets. Neither of these undertakings can be regarded as costeffective at a time of what we are repeatedly told is worse financial crisis than ever. Far more serious than the pre ACHIEVEMENT ANTONY SHER Best Richard Ill since Olivier but miscast as a drag queen dicament of the National which is like that of a ducal family bemoaning the fact that it may be forced to sell one of its half-dozen Rembrandts is that of such theatres as the Almeida, the Bush and Sadler's Wells when the otherwise welcome abolition the GLC will terminate their grants from that body. The first two of these do invaluable work in mounting new plays.

The year was notable for three performances from stars that could only be described as bad: from Glenda Jackson as from Edward Fox the Russian Don Juan in and from Alan Bates as a smirkingly LONDON PALLADIUM LIMITED SEASON- MUST END FEB 22 SUBS. 2.30 TWICE DAILY 7.30 "DES CONNOR is Star "A TERRIFIC TRADITIONAL PANTO" The Star inderella "THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION IS AN ENCHANTMENT" 66 Daily Mail PAUL NICHOLAS undeniably a dishy Prince Charming" Daily Mail JOHN JUNKIN SARAH PAYNE ravishingly beautiful and tuneful" Daily Mail HOPE KEEN ROSS Guest Star with ANNA NEAGLE wins tumultuous applause" Daily Telegraph "The Emanuel costumes are ravishing" Mail On REAL VARIETY TO SEND US ALL OUT OF THE THEATRE HAPPY" The Guardian BOX OFFICE OPEN 10am 8.30pm 01-437 7373 C.C. ACCEPTED. 24HR 7 DAY C.C. BOOKING 01-240 7200 GROUP SALES BOX OFFICE 01-930 6123 and all usual ticket agents PRICES OF ADMISSION £5.50 to £12.50 PARTY RATES AVAILABLE APPLY BOX OFFICE FILMS DAVID CASTELL Rising in the West 28 281 MICHAEL GAMBON Play was a pleasure LIV ULLMAN Most memorable woman splendidly fruity form, Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound." and, up at Scarborough.

a revival of Sandy Wilson's enchanting little musical His Monkey If I have one avish for 1986, it is that theatrical managements would realise that high artistic endeavour and comfort and convenience are not incompatible. the Bush people feet. at the Cottesloe their heads get in the way and their elbows dig into one. The Almeida must be the largest and most efficient refrigerator in Islington. FIONA SHAW AND JULIET STEVENSON Enchanting Celia and Rosalind Photographs: Morris Newcombe HA LAVING time when grown the up Western was as much a commonplace in the cinema as the game show is on today's television, it comes as a shock to realise that, to many younger filmgoers, Silverado (PG: Leicester Square Theatre) is an introduction rather than a rosy Westerns, once the simplest of moralities, became complex and politicised in the Sixties.

Westerns, once the cheapest movies to make, took a traumatic financial hiding in the seventies. Within the last decade, the only one deemed to stand a chance at the box office was the western with a The whole point of "Silver. ado," directed which and Lawrence Kasdan co-written with his brother Mark, is that it is a Western without a difference, a celebratory. thesaurus of quotations from every oater since the first cowboy that there were some problems a man just can't walk around and told his opponent to get out of town. Kasdan, gifted stylist and pasticheur, has constructed and executed the film with tender, loving care.

But, just as his script for "Raiders of the Lost Ark' alchemised the drossy elements of the Saturday morning serials and Body (his directorial debut film) brought film noir sweltering into the Eighties with a classy variation on Double Indemnity." the new film develops robustness fits own. It transcends parodic homage. Kasdan's good guys have given facility for dodging bullets, no matter how thick they fly, while the villains fall from escarpments, clutching their chests at the mere mention of firearms. Who would have it any other way? The heroes go in for unshakeable male-bonding, kiss their horses, but are strong and silent with the womanfolk (Linda Hunt, absurdly touching as a diminutive barkeep: Rosanna Arquette, rather wasted as young homesteader). Yet, so quick on the draw that their TN JULY last year, an affable Southern American gentleman named Godfrey Cheshire III arrived in London to take on the British music business.

During a vacation between quitting his job as a journalist and embarking on a career producing films, Cheshire had elected himself ambassador for what termed Comboland." Having persuaded his former employers, the Spectator magazine of Raleigh, North Carolina, to finance the project, he had compiled a series of cassettes featuring his favourite local bands to distribute to. receptive parties overseas. And six months later, evidence of the success', of this unlikely and unpaid musical evangelist is beginning to emerge in British record stores. What appealed to a number of DJs, radio and TV producers and record company A departments about the 28 acts on Cheshire's cassettes was a refreshing combination of the rawness of British punk, lacking in our own music in 1985, with that peculiar Southern gift for melodic playing and singing. The music of Comboland was ENTERTAINMENTS MENTS QUEENS, 01-734 1166, 734 1167.

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behold" Std. Genuinely funny FT RICHARD LYNDA VERNON BELLINGHAM in LOOK NO HANS! opponents wonder what's hit them, they bring ossified characters back to full life make their pilgrimage through the landscape of our movie memories. me The plot meanders drunkenly, but is in the long run about as important as that of a pantomime; casting, energy levels and the speciality acts are what count. Here the magnificant four of Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover and Kevin Kostner (the last a pleasing discovery in the style of the young Steve McQueen) score strikingly. And there's a very decent cameo of a lawman by our own John Cleese, battling impressively against typecasting.

AFTER PLAYING an elf in Santa Dudley Moore needs all the career help he can get. It certainly isn't forthcoming in Best Defence (15: Plaza), a woeful and shamefully convoluted comedy directed by Willard Huyck who, with his regular partner Gloria Katz, supplied Indiana Jones with further adventures in the Temple of Doom. Moore is tackling a design snag in the missile quidance system of a tank in the California of 1982; Eddie Murphy strategic guest is driving the wretched vehicle in the Kuwait of 1984. Huyck seesaws us from one end of the story to the other, making several blunt jokes along the way. This messy, hopelessly confused comedy demands a concentration it simply never earns.

THE AMERICAN cinema has strong tradition of political conspiracy thrillers. from The Manchurian Candidate through to AH the President's The A Parallex View inevitably but British contributions to the genre have been few and far between. Defence of the Realm (PG: Odeon Haymarket) is therefore the more impressive and the more welcome. David Drury's finely-judged thriller credits its audience with more than a modicum of intelligence and allows a series of baffling events to unravel in just the way they do to the disenchanted Fleet Street reporter (excellent Gabriel Byrne) who discovers that he is being manipulated by people in high places. The story begins with Profumo- like scandal that brings about the resignation of a prominent MP (Ian Bannen).

But the unexplained death of a colleague, also working on the story, alerts Byrne to dig deeper. How is sordid sex scandal linked to a hit-and run accident close to an American military base? The deadly, game of consequences unfolds with quiet skill, and the sideline debate on the ethics of journalism are every bit as sharp-fanged as the political cover-up. All in all, British cinema couldn't hope for a better start to 1986 A VISUALLY exquisite film by Japanese di director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Fire Festival (18: ICA) was inspired by news item about a man who turned rifle first on his wife and then on himself. Vanagimachi spends the two hours before this climax examining community in which he lives, One learns great deal about the lives of fishermen and lumberjacks, even about Japanese religious ceremony, but the pantheism that is the axle of place is difficult to convey. heard Diana Rigg and Denis the leading roles.

some bold cuts in the of my colleagues did enthusiasm, with the result that transfer took place. With the RSC. David Suchet. who ought to have been playing Othello, gave us an excellent lago. Juliet Stevenson was an enchanting Rosalind and Fiona Shaw a no less enchanting Celia.

Kenneth Branagh's fresh-faced, ardent Henry confirmed me in my view that this actor, still in his twenties, is likely to go far." Three actresses, Janet Suzmann in Gorki's Frances Barber in Camille," Sheila Gish in redeemed productions that might otherwise have been disastrous. But for me the most memorable woman's performance of the year from strong, poised, beautiful Liv Ullman in Harold Pinter's "Old If there was a wealth of good acting, there was a dearth of good new plays. Despite its success with my colleagues Magnificent epic drama." Scabrously Howard Brenton's and David funny. Comedy triumph Hare's Pravda remains my least agreeable memory of the year, with Bond's Bore War and a trilogy plays by Howard Barker, both at the Pit, coming a close second. Evenings of unalloyed pleasure were not all that common.

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(National Theatre's open stage) Tomor, Wed. Thur 715. 'Tue 200 (low price mat) 7 15. then Jan 20 21 YONADAB by Peter Shafter Fri 7 15. Sat 2.00 (low price mat) 715, then Jan 13 Jan 22 23 THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND by Tom.

Stoppard with THE CRITIC by Sheridan. PALACE THEATRE. 437 6834. C.C. 437 6433 Grp.

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On the Waterfront (1954) carried off seven of the 35 Oscars his films won. In early days he produced as S. P. Eagle, but reverted to his own name after the success of The African Queen" (1951). He was twice David Lean's producer, The Bridge on the Kwai (1957) and "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962).

ROCK TREVOR DANN Southern accent camp Yonadab. Three other actors gave both inadequate and brilliant performances within the same 12 months. Ben who seemed to lack both the physical and dramatic inches for Othello, was wholly remarkable as the aged Apache chief in Bernard Pomerance's Melons. Robert Eddison, SO thrilling as Theramenes in was totally miscast as the traitor in P. D.

James's Private Antony, Sher, the best Richard 111 since Laurence Olivier, was again totally miscast as the slob of a drag queen in "Torch Song Trilogy." The year provided one evening of total perfection. This was Howard Dayies's production of Christopher Hampton's dramalisation of Choderlos de Laclos's 18th century novel Les Liaisons with tremendously exciting performances from Alan Rickman and Lindsey Duncan as the two agents of corruption. The best Shakespearian production of the year was Robin Phillips's Antony and Cleopatra at Chichester, with Continued from previous page MERMAID THEATRE. 01 236 5568 C.C bkgs 741 9999 Group Sales. 930 6123.

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But hidden away amid the tobacco plantations of Raleigh, Durham and WinstonSalem, this remarkable singer, songwriter and producer has developed into an inspiration for the latest generation of NC musicians. His own album, Most of the Girls Like to Dance, But Only Some of the Boys Like To (Demon FIEND 60), amply demonstrates ability through 14 unpretentious, beautifully crafted taut spare arrangements topped by Dixon's dramatic vocals. SHAFTESBURY. $79 5599. C.C.

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TWO INTO ONE see Shaftesbury Theatre WIFE BEGINS AT FORTY Ambassadors Theatre RUN FOR YOUR WIFE see Criterion Theatre. ART GALLERIES SHOTS OF STYLE GREAT FASHION PHOTOGRAPHS CHOSEN BY DAVID BAILEY LAST JANUARY 19 TWO 1986 WEEKS INFORMATION RECORDED VICTORIA The Nation's 01-5814894 ALBERT Treasure CLOSED FRIDAYS MUSEUM House The Square, Sussex BN18 9AB ARMSTRONG-DAVIS GALLERY SCULPTURE- different and inexpensive gifts from as little as £2.50 unframed. Lower ground floor gallery of Allan's Famous Silk Shop. 56 58 Duke Street. Grosvenor Square, WIM 6HS: 9-6 Mon.

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free. Recorded info. 01-580 1788. (0903) 882752. ALLANS -HAND EMBROIDERED SILK PICTURES make the most delightful, Produced by Dixon and now available on DB Records is Fetchin' Bones' Cabin Flounder (DBAT 77), an album of goodnatured pub rock thrashes with titles like God's Hanky" and Kitchen of Life." The exuberant singer, Hope Nicholls, sounds like Debbie Harry on helium.

Reminders that Southern life isn't all sunshine, cold beer and rocking chairs on the front porch come from the agit-pop Othermothers on No Place Like Home (Making Waves SPIN 303), whose song Rodeo deals with a bloody confrontation between communists and Ku Klux Klansmen in their native Greensboro. To come later this month are an album on Demon by Raleigh's Connells, whose full sound relies on two 12-string guitars, and a highly recommended Comboland compilation--featuring tracks from Cheshire's original cassettes- on Making Waves. Y'all gonna have a good time now, 'hear. VAUDEVILLE. 01 836 7969.

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