Theatre Group Julie Horsman 80862704 & Chris Farleigh 8086 2882

Forthcoming Theatre Visits Romeo and Juliet Live from The Royal Opera House at Harbour Lights
Thursday 22 March, 7.15 At the beginning of the ballet MacMillan's crowd scenes teem with life and colour. It's a pleasure to be able to follow the characters created by members of the corps de ballet as they portray the townspeople, market traders and servants of the rival Montagues and Capulets. However, once Romeo and Juliet meet, everything else on stage can only be scenery for their story. Three great pas de deux: the meeting in the ballroom, the balcony scene and the morning after the wedding, eloquently convey the narrative: adolescent shyness and fascination; the headlong rush of love declared, and the grief of parting. The final scene in the tomb, a pas de deux with a lifeless partner, is devastating. The Royal Ballet has performed Romeo and Juliet well over 400 times, yet each performance is subtly different. Every pairing in the title roles brings fresh nuances to the young lovers' characters, while the wealth of supporting roles, from the exuberant trio of harlots in the town square to the murderous rage of Tybalt, offers scope for dancers throughout the Company.

Totton Festival of Drama Hanger Farm Arts Centre 31st 7pm 9 one act plays over four days

March 28th

Tickets 7.50, Cons 6.50 an evening, available from Hanger Farm Arts Centre Box-office tel.023 8066 7683 Programme is as follows as at 1st March
Wednesday Hamlet by William Shakespeare Bottled Spider by Alistair Faulkner Adjudication Louise Manders GODA Thursday Studio Theatre of Salisbury Studio Theatre of Salisbury

Can You Hear The Music by David Campton Maskers Theatre Company Drunk Encounter by Mark Wakeman Bench Theatre Company Adjudication Louise Manders GODA Life Cycle by Sally Lewis/ Craig Murray Chair by Edward Bond On A Night Like This by Peter Yates Adjudication Louise Manders GODA The Write eNuff Group Maskers Theatre Company Bishopstoke Players

Friday

Saturday

Girl In The Corner by Mark Wakeman Bench Theatre Company Jack by Oasis Youth Theatre freely adapted from Jack & The Beanstalk Adjudication Louise Manders GODA Presentation of Awards

The Taming of The Shrew The Globe Theatre, London

Tuesday 3rd July Tickets 32.+ Coach 13.50 Leaving Totton at 9.15am, returning approx 8pm Two wealthy sisters in Padua must be married off. The modest, demure Bianca has no shortage of suitors, but who on earth will take the wild, ungovernable, shrewish Katherina? Only the gold-

digging Petruchio, a man as maddeningly strong-willed and perverse as Katherina herself, is equal to the task of bullying her to the altar. Shakespeares most outrageous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew introduces one of theatres great screwball double-acts, a couple hell-bent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to the plays equivocal and controversial conclusion.