Arts Choice
• The Cambridge University Footlights Revue for 1972, called Norman Ruins, comes to London for a week at the Round House, Chalk Farm, from Monday, June 26. • Trelawny, the musical adapted from Pinero's play, Trelawny of the 'Wells,' and premiered at Bristol earlier this year, arrives in London — appropriately at Sadler's Wells — officially on Tuesday, June 27 (previews are currently in progress). A newcomer, Gemma Craven, takes the role previously taken by Hayley Mills, and Max Adrian and Joyce Carey have been added to the cast headed by Ian Richardson. • John Osborne's adaptation of .14edda Gabler, with Jill Bennett (Mrs Osborne) in the title role, opens at the Royal Court on June 28. Also in the cast: Denholm Elliott, Ronald Hines, Barbara Ferris, Brian Cox, Mary Merrall. • Poetry International '72 winds up this Friday and Saturday with evening performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Among poets taking part are W. H. Auden and Janos Pilinszky (Friday), Robert Lowell and Stephen Spender (Saturday). • Eleven Plus, a new late-night television magazine programme starts this Sunday (London Weekend only). The producer, Russell Harty, formerly associated with Humphrey Burton on Aquarius, says the title reflects nothing but the hour (it's on at 11.30) and that the show will range freely over all subjects that would fall within the scope of any general magazine. • Lively sparring can be expected in Late Night Line-Up this Friday (June 23) when Germaine Greer and Esther Vilar debate woman's role in society.
• Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe makes her debut with the Royal Opera this Friday at Covent Garden in La Traviata, with Carlo Felice Cilliaro conducting. Further performances on June 28, July 1, 4, 7, 13, 17.
• Barnett Newman, one of the important group of New York artists who gave a new direction to painting in the 'fifties, was sparing with exhibitions in his lifetime, but had begun to plan before his death, in 1970, the vast show since put on at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It comes to the Tate next week (June 28-August 6).
• Rubinstein's Love of Life, a fine colour film about the pianist, gets a showing at the Royal Festival Hall on June 30.
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