The Spectator's Arts Round-up
Theatre
Opening in London: The Ant and the Grasshopper, Keith Darvill's play about Scott Fitzgerald, at the Basement Theatre Club (lunchtimes), November 1; The Novelist, a play by Tom Mallin, at the Hampstead Theatre Club, November 1; The Val Doonican Show, also featuring Mike Yarwood, at the London Palladium, November 1; Dear Antoine, the Jean Anouilh play previously seen at Chichester, with John Clements, Isabel Jeans, Joyce Redman and others, at the Piccadilly, November 3; Geneva, first London production of Shaw's play since 1938 and the first-ever with the fourth act he added in 1945, at the Mermaid, November 4; The Douglas Cause by William Douglas Home, with Andrew Cruickshank heading the cast, at the Duke of York's, November 4; Swag, first play for children by crime-writer John Boland, presented by the Unicorn Theatre for Young People at the Arts Theatre Club, November 6 (Saturday and Sunday matinees only).
Cinema
Worth seeing in London: The Ballad of Joe Hill, a not-to-be-missed Bo Widerberg film looking at turn-of-the-century America through the eyes of a Swedish immigrant (Academy Two); Taking Off, in which another alien director looks at America; this time it's the Czech, Milos Forman, and the scene is contemporary, exploring the attitudes of parents and adolescents and the gap between (Odeon, St Martin's Lane); The Conformist, a Bertolucci film set in pre-war Italy (Curzon); and for those who may be interested in assessing Bryan Forbes's contribution to the cinema, there's a week of his films at the Screen on Islington Green: King Rat and The Wrong Box (Sunday and Monday), The Raging Moon (Tuesday and Wednesday), Whistle Down the Wind and Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Thursday); and The Madwoman of Chai/lot (Friday and Saturday).
Exhibition
Scoop, Scandal and Strife, the newspaper exhibition illustrating especially the history of picture journalism, seen earlier this year in Cardiff and now to be shown in London at the Photographers' Gallery, Great Newport Street, November 4-December 3.
Radio
Hamlet, a new production to which our drama critic will be listening to hear how his hunch about Ronald Pickup's being the Hamlet this generation has ..... been looking for shapes up in sound, anyway; the cast also includes Maxine ,. Audley, Robert Lang, Angela Pleasance; Sunday, October 31, at 6.50 pm, Radio 3.
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