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0000. 0000. 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 24 FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1998 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ARTS NEW RELEASES David Gritten on an inspired Ruth Rendell adaptation, and a sci-fi tale that's surprisingly moving Modern Spain in the flesh MAY qualify as a Ruth Rendell mystery, given that it is based on one of her novels. but Spanish direc-tor Pedro Live Flesh offers riches beyond any Rendell adaptation to be seen on ITV. uproots her book from England and sets it in Madrid.

sustaining a thriller's pace while offering an upbeat meditation on post -Franco Spain. It's a huge achievement. Crucial elements in Rendell's story are altered radically: as she has noted. Lire Flesh is barely recognisable as her work. In film.

drugaddicted Elena (Francesca Neri). an Italian diplomat's daughter. mistakenly lets a young man. Victor (Liberto Rabal). into her flat.

Not recognising him. she assumes that he is her drug dealer: but he is keeping a date made a week ago when they met at a club. She pulls a gun. they fight. and two cops arrive drunken wife-beater Sancho Sancho) and his colleague David (Javier Bardem).

Victor holds Elena hostage. but David persuades him to release her. In a scuffle David is wounded by gunfire. Wheelchair-bound. David becomes a star of Spain's Paralympic basketball team.

Elena. now wife. reforms. devoting her life to charity. Released from jail.

Victor plots revenge on them all. and starts by seducing Sancho's wife. Clara (Angela Molina). A political film with no overt political references. Lire Flesh is framed by two contrasting Christmas nativity scenes.

Vic THREE BY Harold Pinter is one too many. He has always been the most precise of writers. choosing every word with a care that makes his language both lethal and resonant. Yet to sit through three plays. each lasting just under an hour.

is too much. especially since the first. A Kind of Alaska, is completely different in stvle and theme from the inspired pairing of The Lover and The Collection. The good news is that audiences can see one. two or all three plays.

and my own advice would be to give 1 Kind of Alaska a miss and settle for The Lorer and The Collection. They are. without OPERA AND BALLET COLISEUM 0171 632 8300 (24hr) ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA Ton't 7.00 MANON Tomor 6.30 THE FAIRY QUEEN 0991 992 017 THE ROYAL OPERA at the Roval Albert Hall Box Office 0171 389 8212. Ton t. Tomor.

Tue Wed. Thur 7.30 LA TRAVIATA Mon performance) LA RONDINE in concert Returns only 0991 992 088 Ea THEATRES ADELPHI cc 24hrs (£1 bkg fee) 0171 311 0055 grps 413 3321 903 FOR A TICKET" M.o.S WINNER. OUTSTANDING MUSICAL. Olivier Awards '98 CHICAGO THE MUSICAL RUTHIE HENSHALL MUTE LEMPER HENRY GOODMAN NIGEL PLANER Mon Sat 8. Wed Sat Mat 3.00 0991 992 001 ALBERY 369 4444 Eves 7.45 Mats Thur 3 Sat 4 Special 1 2 Term Mat Wed 27 at 3 THE PETER HALL COMPANY Christopher Cazenove Kate O' Mara Simon Ward Richard Todd Madeleine Potter Barbara Murray OSCAR WILDE'S CLASSIC COMEDY AN IDEAL HUSBAND "GREAT AND Tms 0991 992 002 LIVE FLESH (18 cert, 99 mins) DEEP IMPACT (12 cert, 120 mins) KINGDOM II (no cert, 295 mins) tor is born in 1970 aboard a bus on a dark.

gloomy Madrid street emptied by a curfew part of the government's new measures curtailing civil liberties. Victor's son arrives in 1996 in a traffic jam on a street filled with happy revellers. Clearly, is saying. things are better now. He has long danced on Franco's grave, his response to Spain's liberation from fascism has rarely varied in tone.

His films (notably Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up. Tie Me Down! and High Heels) trade in hysterical camp excess. Their deliberately trashy storylines include extremities of passion, inventive sexual couplings and heaps of shock value, played out on DayGlo sets. Taken together, they constitute a huge. rude rebuke to fascism and catholicism.

Yet capacity to outrage has flagged recently. So it's a relief that is muted by his standards. It is reflective. mature, even sombre. Which is not to say it's no fun.

cannot shake off his penchant for lurid decor. And he still revels in eroticism: Elena and the crippled David enjoy a delightfully sexy bathtub Liberto Rabal as Victor and Angela Molina as Clara in Pedro exuberant and colourful thriller, Live Flesh encounter, and when Victor finally achieves his "date" with Elena, the camera zooms in so close that their bodies resemble undulating abstract forms. Scenes of David expertly shooting hoops from his wheelchair have a giddy lyricism, yet his new status as national hero seems troubling proof of Spain's propensity to worship martyred heroes. Similarly Elena's ruthless devotion to charity is viewed as expiation of her guilt. Only young Victor, untrammelled by history, does not lapse into victimhood.

This subtle entreaty to Spaniards to rise above the guilt and fatalism foisted on them by religion and Franco's legacy is bound up in a complex, formally rigorous thriller. masterly adaptation, which repays a second viewing, should Three Pinter plays (Pause) Two are very good (Pause) One isn't Slick isn't clever WILD THINGS (18 cert, 111 mins) LIAR (18 cert, 102 mins) THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE (12 cert, 94 mins) HERE ARE films which try our modest slick in point: thriller its own for the Dillon (doesn't Florida raping (Denise from estimable In this alligators meet memorably perpetually brat's Imagine together Springer the guilty Liar good. case, intelligence (Chris subject film is and its Josh angles think going promises. Knew In this dwindling dumb As a he is conspiracy. funny tame.

mentum as we switch from one set of harrowing problems to another. She also lays to rest the fallacy that movies like this are an exclusively male preserve. Deep Impact offers a predictable range of digital effects as the asteroid continues on its destructive path; but who would have guessed that on occasions the film would be moving, too? Those who swooned over Breaking the Waves will doubtless rush to the ICA for director Lars von Trier's new effort, The Kingdom II a continuation of his interminable saga about a Copenhagen hospital beset by dysfunction and incompetence. One admires his vigour; even at five hours, the film sags or loses momentum. But von Trier's blend of satire and surreal.

gory tastelessness can be hard to take even in short bursts. equally compelling. It concerns a respectable married couple and the sexual games they play in the afternoons. when the husband comes home and pretends to be his wife's lover. There is a terrific erotic charge here, increasing emotional violence as the husband recklessly begins to destroy the fantasy they have lovingly created.

The piece is mercilessly accurate about the often squalid nature of male desire. Williams. an actress with a glow like no other. plays the NEW LONDON Drury Lane WC2 BO 0171 405 0072 CC 0171 404 4079 24hr 0171 344 4444. 0171 420 0000.

Groups 0171 413 3311 436 5588 THE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER T.S. ELIOT INTERNATIONAL AWARD- WINNING MUSICAL CATS Eves 7.45 Mats Tue Sat 3.00. Bars at 6.45. LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS AVAIL DAILY BOX OFFICE 0991 992 022 OLD VIC 0171 413 1417 FOR THREE WEEKS ONLY PRESS NIGHT TONIGHT 7PM MARCEL MARCEAU and his International Company THE BOWLER HAT Tue- 7.45. Sat 8.

Mats Thu 3. Sat 5 THE PANTOMIMES OF BIP Sun 4 0991 992 023 The American government sits on this alarming information until an ambitious young TV reporter (Tea Leoni) stumbles on it. Now the President (Morgan Freeman) tells the world the truth, and brings veteran astronaut Robert Duvall out of retirement to destroy the asteroid. Deep Impact then intercuts between human interest stories. Wood.

whose family are offered places in subterranean shelters for when the asteroid hits, is torn because girlfriend's family must take their chances on the surface. Leoni tries to resolve her feelings about her divorced parents (Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell). Duvall, mourning his dead wife. too little of his sons. Director Mimi Leder, a veteran of the television series ER.

knows how to maintain the mo- comic heavy of real panache. When he picks up a small white kitten. la Ernst Stavros Blofeld. you really don't know whether he's going to stroke it or strangle it. Lia Williams brings a depth of real hurt to the piece as Stella.

while Douglas Hodge and Colin McFarlane suggest a growing sexual attraction that transcends their rivalry. Joe Harmston directs this icecold gem of a play with immaculate precision. The Lover (1963). again directed by Harmston. is HER MAJESTY'S 24hr 494 5400 (bkg fee) CC 0171 344 4444 420 0000 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 5454 413 3311 436 5588.

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S AWARD WINNING MUSICAL THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Directed by HAROLD PRINCE NOW BOOKING TO DEC 98 Eves 7.45. Mats Wed Sat 3.00 Apply to Box Office Daily for Returns 0991 992 020 not be missed. It is the most intriguing film so far this year. Deep Impact is a real surprise one doesn't expect much beyond a metaphorical rollercoaster ride from disaster movies about asteroids hurtling towards earth. Yet it also poses a question: faced with imminent death.

how best to spend one's last weeks? This preoccupation with the afterlife, morality and The Meaning Of It All springs from its two screenwriters. Bruce Joel Rubin Michael Tolkin (in The Rapture) have explored these themes before, if from very different angles. Their story starts with Leo (Elijah Wood), a teenage boy hooked on astronomy who. peering through his telescope one night, spots something mysterious in the sky heading this way. Theatre 3 by Harold Pinter Donmar Warehouse olded to scratch at the scab of their hurt, while the confrontations between male characters crackle with tension.

Pinter is magnificent as Harry, bullying everyone with vituperative relish. Often regarded with excessive solemnity (not least by himself), Pinter is actually a wonderfully funny actor. a DONMAR WAREHOUSE 369 1732 3 BY HAROLD PINTER A KIND OF ALASKA THE COLLECTION THE LOVER Ltd Season to 13 June. Mon-Sat 7pm. Wed Sat Mat 2pm DRURY LANE THEATRE ROYAL SS cc (bkg fee) 24hr 7 days 0171 494 5000.

0171 344 420 0000 Groups 0171 494 8000 MISS SAIGON "THE CLASSIC LOVE STORY OF OUR TIME" NOW IN ITS 9TH BREATHTAKING YEAR! Eves Sat at 3pm. Good seats available for Wed Mat some perfs apply B.O. 0991 992 041 DUCHESS BO 0171 494 5075 cc 420 0000 (Bkg fee) Grps 494 5454 MICHAEL WILLIAMS in John Aubrey's BRIEF LIVES "An unforgettable evening" Daily Mail Adapted directed by Patrick Garland Evgs 8.00. Mats Wed Sat 2.30 LAST 2 WEEKS 0991 992 012 FORTUNE B0 CC 0171-836 312 5388 NOW IN ITS 9th HIT YEAR ROBERT DAVID DEMEGER PULLAN Susan Hill's THE WOMAN IN BLACK Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt most thrilling chilling play for years" D.Mail Mon-Sat 8pm. Mats Tue 3pm Sat 4pm Running Time 2hrs 0991 992 014 GARRICK 0171 494 494 5388 (no bkg fee) Groups 0171 494 5454 Winners of 19 Major Awards The Royal National Theatre Production PIP MILLER ALISON FISKE JOHN BARDON JB Priestley's AN INSPECTOR CALLS Be Seen" D.Mail Hours of Enthralling, Visually Stunning Drama" D.

Tel. Mon- 7.45, Sat 5.00 8.15. Mat Wed 2.30 0991 992 015 GIELGUD 0171 494 5065 cc 0171 420 0000 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 5454 JANE ASHER STEVEN PACEY SERENA EVANS THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE ALAN AYCKBOURN'S hit comedy "UNMISSABLE" S. Times 7.45pm Mats Thu Sat 3pm 0991 992 016 HAYMARKET 930 4444. (bkg fee) "There is nothing like a S.

Times DAME EDNA EVERAGE "in marvellously spiky form" Gdn NEW EDNA THE SPECTACLE! "HILARIOUS" Express on Sunday Eves 7.30 Sat Mat 3.00 0991 992 042 patience with stupidity and which compromise their appeal by trying too hard to be clever. Wild Things is a case it's a knowingly trashy which finally disappears up plot twists. A shame, because first hour it's a hoot. Matt plays a high-school teacher time march on?) in a ritzy resort town. He is accused of two students: a rich brat Richards) and a punkish girl wrong side of the tracks (the Neve Campbell).

photogenic hell-hole, where prowl nearby swamps, we strata of society most Theresa Russell, under-clad as the rich sexually voracious mom. the cast of Dynasty thrown with Show, guests and from the Jerry, you've captured pleasures of Wild Things. also too clever for its own Roth, a suspect in a murder to use all his coolness and to outwit two policemen Penn, Michael Rooker) who him to a polygraph test. This modishly bloody and brutal, directors, brothers Jonas and pile on the tricky camera and noir to make us something momentous is But, although Roth is Liar delivers less than it would accuse The Man Who Too Little of being too clever. attempt to revive Bill Murray's career as a leading man, humour is the order of the day.

slow-witted American in London, inadvertently dragged into a spy There are intermittently moments, but mostly it's pretty doubt. the most disturbingly erotic dramas on the London stage and find Pinter at the very top of his form. both as a writer and the real cherry on the cake as a spectacularly charismatic performer. The Collection was first seen on television in 1961. vet it still seems remarkably modern, even shocking.

It concerns two couples, and explores the itch of infidelity and the fluid nature of truth. Harry lives with Bill (the sexual nature of their relationship is signalled with marvel- ALDWYCH 0171 416 6000 cc 957 420 0000 (bkg fee) Grps 416 6075 413 3321 WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's new musical. Previews from 17 June. Opens July 0991 992 003 APOLLO 24hr cc 0171 494 5070 ce 0171 344 4144 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 5454 BEN ELTON'S POPCORN Winner Laurence Olivier Award Best Comedy Winner Barclays Theatre Award Best New Play for 7 Molieres' Mon 8.00pm Mat Wed 3.00pm. Sat 4.00pm.

0991 992 005 APOLLO LABATTS Hammersmith BO(no bkg fee) 0870 606 3400 cc bkg fee) 344 0000 Grps 0171 416 6075 DOCTOR DOLITTLE THE MUSICAL EVENT starring PHILLIP SCHOFIELD Book, music lyrics by Leslie Bricusse Directed by Steven Pimlott WORLD PREMIERE 14 JULY 0991 992 070 APOLLO VICTORIA cc 0171 416 6055 cc 24 hrs 0171 344 4444. 0171 420 0000 Groups 0171 416 413 3321 Andrew Lloyd Webber's STARLIGHT EXPRESS THE FASTEST SHOW ON EARTH Evenings 7.45pm Tue Sat 3pm Tickets from £12.50 0991 992 007 Take the drama out of theatre booking These are just some of the shows you can book through Telegraph Box Office Rent Show Boat Saturday Night Fever Chicago Advice from experienced and knowledgeable staff Open 8am to 8pm. 7 days a week Competitive booking fee and no additional charges All Major debit cards and cheques accepted Trirgraph call your West End Theatre specialist now on 0870 160 7000 BOX NationalCall max 10p per min OFFICE lous delicacy), and James is married to Stella. All four work in the rag trade, and after a trip to Leeds it appears that Stella has spent an illicit night with Bill. Pinter superbly maintains a sense of mystery the accounts of what actually happened that night in the hotel bedroom are constantly changing as well as capturing the almost sexual complicity between betrayed and betrayer.

The piece is perceptive. too, on the terrible urge of those who have been cuck- BARBICAN THEATRE 0171 638 8891 (bkg fee) from Tue 19th May MONSTERS OF GRACE by Philip Glass Robert Wilson THE PIT 0171 638 8891 (bkg fee) from Wed 20th May LOVE'S FIRE 7 controversial new works by American playwrights about love and sex 0991 992 008 (Barbican) CAMBRIDGE 0171 494 6060 344 0000 bkg fee) Grps 494 5588 GREASE NOW IN ITS 5th FANTASTIC YEAR! IAN KELSEY as Danny "A Monster Hit" D. Mirror Mon Sat 7.30pm. Wed Sat Mat 3pm BOOKING TO THE MILLENNIUM 0991 992 009 COMEDY 0171 369 1731 cc 0171 344 4444 THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND by Tom Stoppard BLACK COMEDY by Peter Shaffer "Purest comic confectionery" F.T. Ltd season until 11 July Sat 7.30pm.

Mats Wed Sat 3pm 0991 992 010 CRITERION 0171 369 4444 3rd HILARIOUS YEAR THE REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! "Refreshing and Hilarious" Telegraph the audience weak with the exertion of helpless laughter" D. Mail Mats Thur at 3, Sat at 5 Sun at 4. Eves at 8pm THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (abridged) Tuesday at 8pm Now booking until Sept '98 0991 992 006 DOMINION 0171 656 344 0171 494 420 0000 Grps 0171 416 413 420 000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0 0000 0000 BEST NEW MUSICAL OLIVIER AWARDS 1998 DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 'AN ENCHANTING EVENINGGENUINELY GLORIOUS" D. Tel FEAST OF GOOD FUN" D. Mail Grps bkg until 2.

Jan '99 Mon-Sat 7.30, Wed Sat mat 2.30 0991 992 011 a little time of Opens 19th May Previews from 9th May Victoria Palace Sox Office: 0171 834 1317 Ticketmaster: 212) 344 4444 wife with a lovely mixture of sexual allure and commonsensical compassion, while Hodge movingly captures a man helped back from very brink of mental breakdown. In contrast, A of Alaska (1982) seems secondhand, for it is based on Oliver Sacks's famous book Awakenings, about patients being aroused from sleeping sickness by the drug L- DOPA. Penelope Wilton is both touching and surprisingly funny as the middlewoman who wakes from a 29- PRINCE EDWARD 0171 447 5400 First Call 0171 420 0065 cc. 24hrs 344 4444 Groups 0171 420 0069. Freephone Groups: 0800 614903 YOU ONLY SEE ONE MUSICAL THIS YEAR MAKE IT 'SHOW BOAT'!" Int Herald Tribune SHOW BOAT MUSICAL E.

Std 'A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE" D.MI Eves 7.30pm, Mats Thur Sat 2.30pm 0991 992 028 PRINCE OF WALES 0171 839 5987 First Call 420 0000 cc 344 4444 GRAMMY AWARD WINNING MUSICAL from Broadway. Enough energy to electrify a city" D. Mail. SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE The Songs of Leiber Stoller Mon-Thu 8. Fri 5.45 8.30.

Sat 8. NOW BOOKING TO SEPT '98 0991 992 029 QUEENS 0171 494 5040 cc 0171 420 0000 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 5454 BRIAN CONLEY ELTON JOHN'S GLASSES A new comedy by DAVID FARR Directed by TERRY JOHNSON Red Prev 9 June opens 10 June Fri eves 7.45pm. Wed Mat 3pm Sat 4pm 8pm 0991 992 030 QUEENS 0171 494 4444 420 0 000 Grps 0171 494 5454 SAUCY JACK AND THE SPACE VIXENS THE NEW MUSICAL "Sparkling fun" Sunday Times "Pure unadulterated hedonism" ind Mon Thu 8. Fri 5.30 8.30, Sat 4 8.30 Friday 5.30 all seats two for one 0991 992 030 STRAND Box Off cc (No fee) 0171 930 8800 cc (Bkg fee) 0171 344 0000 Groups 0171 413 436 5588 BUDDY The Buddy Holly Story "BRILLIANT" Sun BUDDY "WONDERFUL STUFF" Sun. Tel Mon Thur 8.0, Fri 5.30 8.30 Sats 5.00 8.30.

ALL SEATS PRICE FRI 5.30 PERF 9th KNOCKOUT YEAR Over 3500 performances Now booking 'till the year 2000 0991 992 040 VAUDEVILLE THEATRE 0171 836 9987 (No fee) cc 344 0000 (Bkg fee) Freephone Groups 0800 614903 KAT AND THE KINGS 'A CLIMACTIC ELECTRICAL STORM OF EXUBERANCE" Std ONE GREAT BIG Gdn Thurs Mats 8.00, all Fri seats Sat half 5.30 price 8.30 0991 992 043 year hibernation. and finds herself caught between her teenage past and the incomprehensible present, while Bill Nighy and Brid Brennan exude compassion as her doctor and her sister. Unfortunately the play. directed by Karel Reisz with some ridiculously long Pinteresque pauses, doesn't really resonate beyond the remarkable borrowed story it has to tell. Indeed it strikes me as the work of a writer whose extraordinary and distinctive talent was about to go into a sad decline.

369 1732 CHARLES SPENCER ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD 0541 541051 Ton't 7.30. Tomor 1.30: RST: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Tomor 7.30 THE TEMPEST. Ton't 7.30. Tomor 1.30 Swan: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR Tomor 7.30 THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. Ton't 7.30 Tomor 1.30: TOP: GOODNIGHT CHILDREN EVERYWHERE 0991 992 008 (Barbican) LONDON PALLADIUM 0171 494 5030 344 4444 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 5454 413 3321 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER SENSATIONAL NIGHT OUT'' D.

Mirror STUFF NIGHT OF THE WEEK" Times "THE NEXT HUGE WEST END SMASH GMTV Mon-Sat 7.30. Wed Sat Mats 2.30 0991 992 018 LONDON PALLADIUM 0171 494 5030 344 4444 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 3321 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Mon-Sat 7.30. Wed Sat mat 2.30 0991 992 018 LYCEUM 0171 656 1818 HEY MR PRODUCER The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh Due to overhwelming public demand EXTRA PERFORMANCE ADDED on Sunday 7 June at 7.30pm (seats £125 £15) Last remaining seats released for Royal Gala Evening on 8 June 0991 992 091 LYRIC 0171 494 5045 fee) cc 344 4444 fee) Frances Barber Lloyd Owen Neil Pearson Liza Walker CLOSER BY PATRICK MARBER BEST NEW PLAY Laurence Olivier Award '98 BEST COMEDY Evening Standard Award Mon-Sat 7.30pm Wed Sat Mats 3pm www.closer.co.uk 0991 992 019 NATIONAL THEATRE 0171 452 3000: Grps 0171 452 3010; 24hr cc bkg fee 0171 420 OLIVIER Ton't 7.15, Tomor 2.00 7.15 AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen in a new version by Christopher Hampton. LYTTELTON Ton't 7.30, Tomor 2.15 7.30 THE LONDON CUCKOLDS by Edward Ravenscroft in a new adaptation by Terry Johnson. COTTESLOE Ton't 7.30.

Tomor 2.30 OUR LADY OF SLIGO a new play by Sebastian Barry. 0991 992 034 (Olivier) 0991 992 033 (Lyttleton) SAVOY THEATRE 0171 836 cc 0171 420 4444 "EDWARD FOX's Macmillan a tour de force" E. Std In Hugh Whitemore's A LETTER OF RESIGNATION of the most literate and powerful plays in the West End" Time Out Mon-Sat Evgs 7.45. Mats Wed 3.00 Sats 4 (X0 OPEN AIR THEATRE Regents Park 0171 486 1933 cc 0171 344 4444 (24hrs) (bkg fee) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Prevs from Fri 22 May at 8pm PALACE THEATRE BO 0171 434 0909 cc 24hrs (bkg fee) 0171 344 4444 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 413 3311. THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR MUSICAL LES MISERABLES IN ITS 13th RECORD Mats Thu NG Sat YEAR 2.30.

Latecomers not admitted until the interval LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS AVAIL DAILY FROM BOX OFFICE. 0991 992 024 PHOENIX 0171 369 344 4444. 0171 420 0000 Groups 0171 436 5588 BEST MUSICAL Olivier Drama Awards Plays and Ivor Novello Awards WILLY RUSSELL'S BLOOD BROTHERS Brings the audience to its feet, and roaring its approval" D. Mail. Eves 7.45.

Mats Thur 3.00. Sat 4.00. Special Term Mat Wed 27 at 3.00 0991 992 026 PICCADILLY 0171 369 1734 cC 344 4444 Grps 369 1717 THE PETER HALL COMPANY Peter Bowles Anna Carteret Elaine Paige Michael Pennington Jemma Redgrave David Yelland MAJOR BARBARA Ton't. Thur 7.45 Tomor 3.00 Special Term Mat Wed 27 at 2.30 THE MISANTHROPE HEARTBREAKING' FT Tue, 2.30 0991 992 027 PLAYHOUSE 359 4401 FINAL 3 WEEKS The Almeida Theatre Co "A powerful play an unmissable production" Ind NAKED "Juliette Binoche's translucent beauty conceals raging torrent of emotion" D.Mail Mon Eves 7.30pm. Sat Mat 3.00pm 0991 992 025 SHAFTESBURY THEATRE Telephone bookings 07000 21 12 21m 344 4444 (24hrs bkg fee) http: www.siteforrent.com RENT Book.

music and lyrics by JONATHAN LARSON directed by MICHAEL GREIF Mon Sat 7.30 Mats Sat 3.00 0991 992 038 ST. MARTINS 0171 836 1443 (no bkg fee) 0171 420 0000 344 4444 (bkg fee) Eves 8 Tues 2.45 Sat 5 8. 46th YEAR OF AGATHA CHRISTIE'S THE MOUSETRAP 0991 992 039 VICTORIA PALACE 0171 834 1317 Ticketmaster 0171 344 4444 (bkg fee) Now Previewing. Opens Tues 7pm Eves 7.30, Wed Sat Mats 3.00 0 SWEET CHARITY "THE SHOW STOPPING BIG SPENDER 8 0991 992 044 WYNDHAMS 369 4444 BEST COMEDY Eve Standard Awards BEST COMEDY Laurence Olivier Awards 1997 "ART" A new play by Yasmina Reza Trans. by Christopher Hampton perfect West End play" Ind "The funniest play on Broadway" N.

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