Certainly life must hold clear direction for them. After all, I reasoned, the key that appears on all the 21st birthday cards was the key to knowledge and security. Helen Nugent offers a reality check. The Royal Tour , has been shut out of active competition for this year's Tony Awards - although organisers stressed last night that the show might still get a placatory special achievement award. Nightfall is intense, poetic and enthralling - an assured and intelligently performed work that draws the theatre audience inside an ambiguous puzzle.
Fingers do all the talking Busy tumult began the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's latest program.
The slow-hewn grandeur, chiselled out of granite, of Sibelius's fifth symphony ended it. In bed with the Frumps, rumps and all This show from Frumpus opens with the five Frumps in one large red bed, rolling around, popping up and choreographically contesting the doona. Yet there is no rest for the wicked - with a bang caused by the intrusion of a hanged kewpie doll, horror arrives on this domestic, surburban scene. Sir Alan Ayckbourn is the undisputed master of middle-class English comedy. He has written 53 full-length plays since 1959, with his concerns of love, fidelity and class always to the fore.