The Spectator's Arts Choice
• Theatre: The new season at Stratfordupon-Avon opened this week with Coriolanus, first in the Royal Shakespeare's quartet of plays under the generic title, 'The Romans' (Julius Caesar follows in May, Antony and Cleopatra in August, Titus Andronicus in October); never previously done as a cycle,' they should be worth seeing — and booking for. In London, Tom Stoppard's vivacious philosophical comedy, Jumpers, shares the present National Theatre repertory at the Old Vic with a fragmentarily impressive, but somewhat disappointing Richard II; following the Zulus in the World Theatre Season at the Aldwych, the Nuria Espert Company from Spain open on Monday in Gorca's Yerma.
• Cinema: Nothing notable has opened In London in the last week or two, but there are worth-seeing things still running, viz.: The French Connection, souped-up version of a real-life copsand-drug-smugglers episode in New York (Carlton); The Last Pirture Shaw, the Peter Bogdanovich award-winner about time (the 'fifties) catching up with a small town in Texas (Curzon); The Decameron, not quite Boccaccio but good Pasolini (Prince Charles); Clc/cIltai work Orange, Kubrick's many-face':,y exploration of the violent contemPora' scene (Warner West End).
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