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24 FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1999 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEW RELEASES The impressive Startling vision of the future of cinema Quentin Curtis on Film STARTED as close to a I joke, tionary, but directors, by "vow a Dogme, has of group the become of chastity" revolu- Dan- the most exciting development in modern cinema. The idea behind the gag was to refresh the parts conventional films could longer reach, by cutting out self-indulgence and artificiality (no lighting, no non-source music and no genre plots are some of the self-imposed restrictions). Dogme has yielded just three films so far, but each has stirred things up mightily. Lars Von Trier's The Idiots was a perverse provocation. Mifune became the toast of the recent Berlin Film Festival.

While Thomas Vinterberg's Festen well, it a masterpiece. It is set at the 60th birthday party of Helge (Henning Moritzen), proud patriarch of a large Danish family, at his country mansion. For his children, Christian (Ulrich Thomsen), a restaurateur in Paris, black sheep Michael (Thomas Bo Larsen) and Helene (Paprika Steen), it is a poignant home-coming to the house of their upbringing where their sister was laid to rest earlier. The old fellow boys months, with invitations to a glass of cognac and floats the idea of their joining his masonic lodge. But the smooth, black-tie the evening is ruptured when Christian rises to make a speech in which he accuses his father of abusing him and his sister as children.

If this outline conjures images of opportunistic worthiness in the tradition of abuse movies, think again. Tackling a difficult subject, Festen is surprisingly limber and often very funny. By avoiding "issues" and OPERA AND BALLET COLISEUM 0171 632 8300 (24hr) ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA Ton't 7.30 LA TRAVIATA Tomor 4.00 PARSIFAL 0991 992 017 THEATRES ADELPHI cc 24hrs (£1 bkg fee) 0171 344 0055 Groups 413 614 903 "KILL FOR A TICKET" WINNER, OUTSTANDING MUSICAL. Olivier Awards '98 CHICAGO The Musical Maria Friedman Nicola Hughes "STILL THE HOTTEST SHOW IN TOWN Ind Mon Sat 8, Wed Sat Mat 3 0991 992 001 ALDWYCH 0171 416 6000 cc 957 420 0000 (bkg fee) Grps 416 3321 "Lloyd Webber's best show since Phantom" D. Tel WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND "BEST NEW MUSICAL IN TOWN" D.MI "Completely, completely brilliant" Capital Radio Now booking to March 2000 Mon-Sat 7.45, Mats Thur Sat 3.00 0991 992 003 ALMEIDA AT THE ALBERY 0171 369 4444 "Once again the Almeida has enriched London Theatre with a remarkable play" FT "Gorky's lacerating comedy" D.Mail VASSA "Savagely Ind superb performance from Sheila Hancock" Gdn 4 WEEKS ONLY-MUST END 27 Mar MONDAY ALL SEATS £10 Students £10 Mon-Fri Mon Sat 7.30pm Thur Sat Mats 3pm 0991 992 002 FESTEN (15 cert, 106 mins) BELOVED (15 cert, 171 mins) THE 39 STEPS (U cert, 86 mins) KINI AND ADAMS (No cert, 93 mins) observing people, it takes a lighthearted route to tragedy.

Though Vinterberg claims to be aiming for a timeless, apolitical resonance, he wraps his dark themes in a spry social satire. Upper-class penchants for ritual and for raucous sing-songs are well caught, as is the seemingly limitless, unblinking aristocratic absorption of outrage. Christian has to amplify his denunciation three or four times before there is much stirring over the port. This noblesse will oblige almost anything. THE heart of Festen is a A who great denounces ensemble.

As his the father, son Thomsen is no glib parricide. He twitches with aggression but also nerves, on the edge of breakdown, gulping Dutch courage. His father commends him at the end of the film for fighting "a good but you sense that Christian was broken long ago. Each child's life is in large measure a reaction to the parental crime. Michael's savage treatment of women reeks of repetition of the cruelty he was brought up in, while the daughter poignantly hides her humiliation under social niceties.

The highest praise you can pay Moritzen is that the father comes APOLLO SHAFTESBURY AVE 0171 494 4444 MARK LITTLE in DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN by Rob "A Rave from D.Ml "ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT" John Gray (Men are from Mars.) Mon -Thurs 8.00, Fri 8.45, Sat 6.00 8.45 0991 992 005 APOLLO VICTORIA cc 0171 416 6055 cc 24 hrs 0171 344 420 0000 Groups 0171 416 413 3321 Andrew Lloyd Webber's STARLIGHT EXPRESS SEE IT AND YOU STILL WON'T BELIEVE IT! Evenings 7.45pm, Tue Sat 3pm Tickets from £12.50 NOW BOOKING TO MARCH 2000 0991 992 007 CAMBRIDGE 0171 494 6060 344 0000 bkg fee) Groups 494 5588 DARREN DAY as Danny GREASE NOW IN ITS 6th SENSATIONAL YEAR! "A Monster Hit" Daily Mirror Mon Sat 7.30pm, Wed Sat Mat 3pm BOOKING TO THE MILLENNIUM 0991 992 009 COMEDY 0171 369 1741 344 4444 bkg fee) EWAN McGREGOR LITTLE MALCOLM by David Halliwell Directed by Denis Lawson -Sat 8pm Mats Thu Sat 3pm Front row seats available on day 2hrs prior to performance MUST CLOSE 13 MARCH 0991 992 010 Take the drama out of theatre booking These are just some of the shows you can book through Telegraph Box Office West Side Story Miss Saigon Oklahoma Advice from experienced and knowledgeable staff Open hours a dav 7 days a Competitive booking fee and no additional charges All Major credit, debit cards and cheques accepted Tickets are non refundable and ion transferable call your West End Theatre specialist now on 0870 160 7000 BOX ARTS Festen, and the fascinating failure of Oprah Winfrey's Beloved Thomas Bo Larsen as the wayward brother in Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's outstanding ensemble work, Festen across as a man not a monster. This well-groomed sybarite is oddly likeable, clearly a fine host, serving his guests venison and cranberry and evincing the natural authority of one who has spent a lifetime being obeyed. A measure of Festen's greatness is its willingness to present sympathetically the human frailty that lies behind horrible acts of abuse. With Helge, you sense, it was a kind of greed for life, recognition and familial reward turned into a voraciousness that ended up devouring his own offspring. Festen's Danish setting and theme of a son's vengeance make comparisons with Hamlet irresistible.

In fact, as Elsa, Helge's wife, Birthe Neumann is one of the best Gertrudes you're likely to see, her tight smile worn like a badge of loyalty to her spouse, and closed to all values beyond the corruption she covers up. In Shakespearean fashion, Vinterberg hints at a rottenness that has spread out from the original offence: the feast is rife with sexism and racism, culminating in the frighteningly virulent taunting of Helene's black boyfriend. But a key virtue of the movie is that it's never simply one thing: just when it looks like setinto social satire, the ghost of the daughter flits in to turn it supernatural, before a sly hint twists us towards skewed religious symbolism. So much for the ideas what of Dogme? The limitations Vinterberg has imposed on the film work COMEDY 0171 369 1731 0171 344 4444 SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER by Tennessee Williams With Sheila Gish and Rachel Weisz From 8 April 14 weeks only 0991 992 010 CRITERION 0171 369 4444 HILARIOUS 4th GREAT YEAR THE REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY in THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) Mats Thur at 3pm, Sat at 5pm Sun at 4pm. Eves at 8pm "Laugh, I nearly died" Times "Go Now!" S.

Times Tuesday only at 8pm THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (abridged) BOOKING 'TIL SEPT '99 0991 992 006 DOMINION 0171 1888 344 4444 Groups 0171 3321 058. Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST The smash hit musical A MAGICAL EVENING OF SPECTACULAR SPECIAL EFFECTS AMAZING COSTUMES AND BEAUTIFUL SONGS" Classic FM Mon Sat 7.30, Mats Wed Sat 2.30 NOW BOOKING TO JUNE 0991 992 011 DRURY LANE THEATRE ROYAL SS cc (bkg fee) 24hr 7 days 0171 494 344 420 0000 Grps 494 841 0841 MISS SAIGON "THE CLASSIC LOVE STORY OF OUR TIME" NOW IN ITS 10TH BREATHTAKING YEAR! Eves Wed Sat at 3pm Good seats available for Wed Mat some perfs apply B.O. 0991 992 041 DUCHESS 0171 494 5075 cc 0171 420 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 5454 DAVID SARA MATTHEW BURKE KESTELMAN MARSH in MICHAEL FRAYN'S MULTI AWARD WINNING PLAY COPENHAGEN Dir by MICHAEL BLAKEMORE "Masterly performance in a masterwork" Times Mon Sat 7.30, Mats Thu Sat 2.30 0991 992 012 Must End 13 Mar FASCINATING AIDA See Haymarket Theatre for details REVIEW Groaning with talent Music Maurizio Pollini Festival Hall to its advantage. The refusal to use artificial lighting, in particular, means that the movie, as the night wears on, is at its murkiest when the family itself reaches its darkest hour. Vinterberg, to his disappointment, had to shoot Festen on videotape (not a Dogme requirement), but it is testament to the way a great eye will transcend deficiency in materials.

In fact, the film's grainy look and jerky, hand-held camera movements are in keeping with its startling emotional rawness. The fact that Festen failed to win a best foreign film Oscar nomination this year is only another episode in that particular category's long-running farce. In honouring a film such as La vita bella, the Academy is acknowledging the prizewinning movie qualities of magnificent production values, slightly dishonest charm and relentless self-promotion. A ticket to Festen buys you a ride into something else altogether the guerrilla technique and frightening frankness of cinema's future. TONATHAN DEMME's nating Beloved is failure, a sumptous, with enough fascistartling images and committed performances to sustain three great films, but at times too little dramatic and emotional coherence to hold the attention.

Oprah Winfrey plays Sethe, the heroine of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prizewinning novel. Sethe is an ex- BO CC 0171 836 5388 ITS 10th HIT YEAR ROBERT FORTUNE 312 NOW IN JOHN NETTLETON HANDS Susan Hill's THE WOMAN IN BLACK Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt "The most thrilling and chilling play for years" D.Mail Mon- Sat 8.00, Mats Tue 3.00 Sat 4.00 Running Time 2hrs 0991 992 GARRICK 0171 494 4444 Groups 0171 494 3321 "AN EPIC FOR OUR EPOCH" Eve Std The Royal National Theatre Production William Philip Marjorie Gaunt Whitchurch Yates JB PRIESTLEY'S AN INSPECTOR CALLS "ONE OF THE MOST INTOXICATING, THEATRICALLY IMAGINATIVE EXPERIENCES OF THE 1990'S" Eve. Std Mon-Fri 7.45, Sat 5.00 8.15, Mat Wed 2.30 0991 992 GIELGUD 0171 494 0171 420 0000 (bkg fee) Groups 0171 494 5454 FELICITY KENDAL NICKY HENSON JOSIE LAWRENCE ROBERT BATHURST ALARMS EXCURSIONS "MICHAEL FRAYN'S NIFTY HILARIOUS COMEDY" S.Tms Dir by MICHAEL BLAKEMORE Mon Sat 7.45pm Mats Thu Sat 3pm LAST WEEK MUST END TOMOR 0991 992 016 GIELGUD 0171 494 4444 fee) Michael Clive Pennington Francis GROSS INDECENCY The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde A New Play Previews from 12 March 0991 992 016 HAYMARKET BO cc 0171 930 8800 FASCINATING AIDA BAREFACED CHIC "Sweet FA are back in town and back on top" D.MI Mon -Sat 7.45 Mats Sat 4.00 EXTRA WEEK ADDED ENDS 13 MAR 0991 992 042 HAYMARKET THEATRE ROYAL 0171 930 8800 cc 344 4444 (bkg fee) RICHARD MARSHA DREYFUSS MASON NEIL SIMON'S THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE FROM 23rd MARCH 0991 992 042 HER MAJESTY'S 24hr 494 5400 (bkg fee) CC 0171 344 0000 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 5588 ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S AWARD WINNING MUSICAL THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Directed by HAROLD PRINCE NOW BOOKING TO JUNE 1999 Eves 7.45, Mats Wed Sat 3.00 Apply to Box Office Daily for Returns and Wednesday mat availability 0991 992 020 slave who slaughtered her children rather than hand them over to her former owner. The film relates the arrival, in 1873, of the mysterious Beloved (Thandie Newton), maybe Sethe's daughter's ghost, and the ructions she causes in Sethe's Ohio houseme's movie has some success in finding a visual equivalent to Morrison's dense, incantatory prose, in a labyrinthine flashback structure and images that are lush and sensuous. Yet there is also a trap in fidelity that the film falls into: by rooting the action, like the novel's, in Sethe's house, the film misses the opportunity for a more expansive adaptation.

And while Morrison's book was relatively short and deft, albeit difficult, Demme's film is monumental and ponderous, with the novel's nuances wrung out rather glanced at. It needed a bolder reject, revise and invent anew. As Sethe, Winfrey, whose baby this project is, has a stoical command that impresses but fails truly to move, maybe because her performance seems set in stone rather than etched in flesh and blood. Thandie Newton's strange, strangulated performance, with its croaking voice, researched from Haitian witch doctors, is one of the boldest turns seen in recent film and, to my mind, a disaster. It fatally distances us from a character who in the book insinuates herself LONDON PALLADIUM 0171 494 5030 344 4444 (bkg fee) Grps 0171 494 3321 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER "A SENSATIONAL NIGHT OUT" D.Mirror "HOT STUFF ANY NIGHT OF THE WEEK" Times "FEVER IS STILL INFECTIOUS" D.

Tel Mon-Sat 7.30, Wed Sat Mats 2.30 NOW BOOKING TO OCT 1999 SOME SEATS AVAIL FOR WEDS MAT 0991 992 018 LONDON APOLLO Hammersmith BO (no bkg fee) 0870 606 3400 CC bkg fee) 420 4444 Groups 0171 416 6075 DOCTOR DOLITTLE starring PHILLIP SCHOFIELD "THIS IS A SURE-FIRE HIT" ITV "PURE PLEASURE" Daily Mail Book, music lyrics by Leslie Bricusse Directed by Steven Pimlott Tue-Sat 7.30, Mats Wed, Sat 2.30 0991 992 070 LYCEUM B0 CC (24hrs) 0870 606 3440 0171 416 0000 THE SEASON'S SENSATION The Royal National Theatre Production Rodgers Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA Winner of 4 Laurence Olivier Awards incl Outstanding Musical Production Best Musical Eve. Standard Award "OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EVENING" Mail, Guard, Times, Ind, etc. Eves 7.30 Mats Wed Sat 2.30 16 WEEKS ONLY TO 26 JUNE 0991 992 091 LYRIC 0171. 494 5045 cc 0171 344 4444 Susannah York Christopher Cazenove Simon Ward Geraldine Fitzgerald Richard Todd Barbara Murray OSCAR WILDE'S CLASSIC COMEDY AN IDEAL HUSBAND "GREAT AND GLORIOUS" S.Tms Eves 7.45 Mats Wed 3 Sat 4 ENDS TOMORROW 0991 992 019 LYRIC 0171 494 344 4444 ANIMAL CRACKERS The Marx Brothers Musical Comedy Previews from March 11 0991 992 019 NATIONAL THEATRE bo 0171 452 3000 Groups 0171 452 3010; 24hr cc bkg fee 0171 420 0000. OLIVIER Tomor 7.00 (PREVIEW) TROILUS AND CRESSIDA by William Shakespeare.

LYTTELTON Ton't 7.30, Tomor 2.15 7.30 BETRAYAL by Harold Pinter. 0 COTTESLOE Ton't 7.30, Tomor 2.30 Tomor 7.30 THE RIOT a new play by Nick Darke. 0991 992 034 0991 992 033 NEW LONDON Drury Lane WC2 BO 0171 405 0072 CC 24 hrs 344 4444 Grps 405 3311 THE ANDREW LLOYD T.S. ELIOT INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL CATS Eves 7.45 Mats Tue Sat 3.00 Bars Open at 6.45 Good seats available for Tuesday Mat 0991 992 022 as into Sethe's affections and our own. As Sethe's lover, Paul Danny Glover does well with a part that is truncated and underwritten.

Beloved failed in America, and Demme has attributed that to white male guilt and inability to confront the shocking past: an analysis that reeks of contempt for the public. More likely, Americans perceived that, for all their good intentions and craftsmanmakers have turned Morrison's lithe, poetic realism into something bloated and unwieldy. Those of us who loved Demme's early work must hope he now returns to its frisky joy and abandons the role of smiling public man. Finally, a couple of seasons to recommend. The Barbican's short Hitchcock centenary season has, as a centrepiece, a new print of The 39 Steps.

Donat and Carroll, the man with missing finger, Mr Memory you've seen them all, but see them again. While a season of the work of the Burkina Faso director Idrissa runs this month at the National Film Theatre. The main focus is his 1997 Cannes entry, Kini and Adams, a rare English-language film, and a sort of buddy pic, both light-heartedly charming and deceptively dark, even cynical. It showcases the director's visual flair and his feeling for the African conflict between love of home and naive dreams of escape. QUEEN'S 0171 494 5040 (£1 bkg fee) Groups 0171 494 240 1205 RUFUS SALLY SEWELL DEXTER MACBETH by William Shakespeare Eves 7.30 Mats Sat 2.30 0991 992 030 0171 565 420 0005 ROYAL COURT, Duke of York's Best New Play Olivier Awards 1999 THE WEIR by Conor McPherson.

Mon Sat 7.30. Wed Sat Mat 3.30. Upstairs (Ambassadors, West St) TOAST Richard Bean 7.00, Sat Mat 4 LIFT OFF by Roy Williams 9.00 0991 992 031 F.OYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY STRATFORD 01789 295623 0541 541051 RST: Last 3 perfs THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE Ton't 7.15 Tomor 2.30 7.15. TOP: THE DISPUTE Ton't 7.30 Tomor 2.30 7.30 LONDON 0171 638 8891 Barbican: Last 3 perfs THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Ton't 7.15, Tomor 1.45 7.15. Pit GOODNIGHT CHILDREN EVERYWHERE Ton't Tomor 2.00 7.15.

Young Vic: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR Ton't 7.15 Tomor 2.00 7.15. 0991 992 008 SAVOY THEATRE 0171 240 1166 "ROBERT LINDSAY IN GLITTERING FORM" D.Mail The Royal Shakespeare Company production of RICHARD III "AMBITIOUS, INVENTIVE AND VILLAINOUSLY FUNNY Ind on Sun Mon Sat 7.30, Sat mat 2.30 LAST 4 WEEKS ENDS 27 MARCH 0991 992 072 SHAFTESBURY 07000 21 12 21 0870 840 344 4444 (bkg fee) "GO CELEBRATE" Time Out RENT SUNFORGETTABLE, EXPLOSIVE, Daily Mail Mon-Sat 7.30, Mats Wed, Sat 3.00 NOW BOOKING TO 2000 0991 992 038 last Op as ANTONIO DIABELLI must have known how catchy his little waltz theme would be when he penned it as a marketing ploy for his publishing ventures in early 19thcentury Vienna. But it was Beethoven who turned what he jokingly dismissed as a "cobbler's patch" into one of the peaks of piano literature. The 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli are one of those pianistic challenges that separate the merely good from the truly great. And Maurizio Pollini is certainly among the latter.

In a concert of late Beethoven, he coupled the Variations with the last two sets Bagatelles, Op 119 and 126, music that similarly transcends the expectation of its title, which translates as There was nothing trifling about Pollini's performance of these 17. miniatures. Indeed, in his hands they emerged as forward-looking harmonically and formally, achieving a level of refinement and encapsulated emotion as concise and aphoristic as the Webern he also loves. The only dampener on this performance was Pollini's habit of singing more like groaning along with his playing. It was so intrusive at the start that one feared it might dog the whole concert.

Maybe someone dared to have a quiet word with him in the interval, for it was far less pervasive in the Variations that followed in the second half, apart from No 6, where he just couldn't contain his vocal cords in its trilling version of the theme. This was, however, a supremely characterful and involving performance. Part of Beethoven's fun with Diabelli's theme is in the games he plays with his audience, seeming to challenge them into finding the original melody in the various transformations he subjects it to, and it was the dichotomy between this and the more serious, intellectual side of the work that made Pollini's account so absorbing. "Poise, power and runs the populist subtitle of the South Bank's International Piano Series, of which this recital formed a part and all three were present here. Each of the 33 variations was a memorable event in a consummate whole, from the muscular way Pollini emphasised the descending bass line in No 1, through the mock seriousness of Beethoven's allusion to Don Giovanni in No 22, to the more ethereal tone of the last few variations.

MATTHEW RYE OLD VIC 0171 494 5372 (£1 fee) "A STAR PERFORMANCE" Grd DAVID SUCHET in BY PETER SHAFFER "Highly Theatrical and superbly directed by PETER HALL" Gdn A CRACKING 1 NIGHT OUT D.TEL "EVERYONE MUST GO" NOW Evgs Mon-Sat 7.30, Mat Wed Sat 2.30. 0991 992 023 PALACE THEATRE BO 0171 434 0909 cc 24hrs (bkg fee) 0171 3444444 (bkg fee) Groups 0171 413 3311 THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR MUSICAL LES MISERABLES NOW IN ITS 14th RECORD-BREAKING YEAR Eves 7.30 Mats Thu Sat 2.30 GOOD SEATS AVAIL FOR THUR MAT Limited Number of seats avail daily from B.O. for eve performances Latecomers not admitted until the interval 0991 992 024 PEACOCK THEATRE 0171 863 8222 Sadler's Wells in the West End JULIA MIGENES Diva on the Verge 8th 14th March at 7.30pm 2 PERFORMANCES ONLY PEACOCK THEATRE 0171 863 8222 Sadlers Wells in the West End PACO PENA Flamenco Dance Company "New levels of rhythmic drive" Ind on Sun "Flamenco at it's finest" E. Standard Tue-Sat 8, Sat Sun 3. Extended to Mar 20 PHOENIX 0171 369 344 4444.

0171 420 0000 Groups 0800 614903 BEST MUSICAL Awards Plays and Novello Awards WILLY RUSSELL'S BLOOD BROTHERS the audience to its feet, and roaring its approval" D.Mail Eves 7.45, Mats Thur 3.00, Sat 4.00 0991 992 026 PICCADILLY 0171 369 4444 SLAVA'S SNOWSHOW The World's Greatest Clown Mon Sat 7.30. Mats Thurs Sat 2.30 0991 992 027 PRINCE 0171 447 5400 0870 344.4444 (no bkg fee), Benny Andersson Bjorn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA A new musical based on the songs of ABBA Performances begin 23 March 0991 992 028 PRINCE OF WALES 0171 839 5987 0171 420 344 4444 "A MASTERPIECE OF MUSICAL THEATRE FROM START TO FINISH WEST SIDE STORY IS A BRILLIANT MUSICAL" D.Mail Eves 7.45, Mat Thurs Sat 3.00 0991 992. 029 SEAT AVAILABILITY FOR SEAT AvAilability of TodAy's PERFORMANCES AT AlL THE THEATRES listed iN THiS SECTION just dial 0660 616 041 from the handset of your fax machine Calls cost 49p per min. ud, Westminster provided Tower, by SE1 75P. ST.

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Mats Thurs 2 Sat 4 All seats £12.50, Fri Sat £15.50 Limited Season until Mar 13 0991 992 044 WYNDHAMS 369 4444 WINNER 1998 TONY AWARD BEST PLAY 1997 OLIVIER AWARD BEST COMEDY 1996 STANDARD AWARD "ART" a new play by Yasmina Reza Trans by Christopher Hampton "Stunningly brilliant and funny" Times Eves 8, Mats Wed 3, Sat Sun 5 0991 992 049 A Telegraph Service If you would like a Seating Plan sent by Fax Dial the number shown next to the fax symbol of your chosen theatre. Where possible use the handset of vour machine the using, on hook diatling or polling mode 124 hours a das Calls to 0991 numbers cost £1.50 min Average call duration minutes For a Seating Plan by post Please phone our Lie Operator Monday to Friday 9 00.1m to 5.30pm on 0991 992 090 Helpline 0171 412 3795 Telecom Express. Westminster Tower London SE1 75P This is a provided he The Dails Telegraph.