The Spectator's Arts Round-up
Theatre
Opening in Dondon: Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas's play for voices,' for one week at Sadler's Wells, October 11-16; The Cliff Richard Show at the London Palladium, October 11; Slip Road Wedding, the second of the two plays in the Peter Terson season at the Shaw, October 12; 1789 ('The French Revolution Year One'), presented by Le Theatre du Soleil, at the Roundhouse, October 12; Les Fourberies de Scapin, the Moliere comedy presented by Le Theatre de Bourgogne, at the Young Vic, October 13; Occupations, by Trevor Griffiths, the first of three plays to be presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Plade, Euston Road, October 13; Getting On, a new play by Alan Bennett with a cast headed by Kenneth More and Gemma Jones, at the Queen's, October 14. Out of Town: The Three Sisters, Chekhov's play presented by the Cambridge Theatre Company, with cast including Virginia McKenna, Daniel Massey and Prunella Scales, at the Arts, Cambridge, October 11; Suzanna Andler, a play by Marguerite Duras, starring Eileen Atkins, at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, October 12.
A Symposium on the Case for a British Theatre Institute, arranged by Theatre Quarterly and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, under the chairmanship of Martin Esslin; at the ICA, Nash House, The Mall, 10.30 am 5.30 pm, October 9.
Cinema
Worth seeing in London: The Ballad of Joe Hill in which director Bo Widerberg takes a perceptive look at turn-of-the-century America through the eyes of a Swedish immigrant (Academy Two); Taking Off, Czech director Miles Forman's first American film has stylish fun with contemporary adolescents and parents (Odeon, St Martin's Lane); Dearest Love, Louis Malle includes a touch of incest in his sensitive treatment of the boy-growing-up theme (Curzon).
Pop, Folk and Jazz
Pop Week at the Royal Albert Hall: Canned Heat, Stone the Crows, October 11; The Everley Brothers, Loudon Wainwright III, October .12; Tom Paxton, October 13; Keith Tippett's Centipede, October 14; Buffy St Marie, October 15; Colosseum and Uriah Heep, October 17.
London Folk Music Festival at Cecil Sharp House, October 15-17.
The New Seekers at Queen Elizabeth Hall, October 16.
The Jacques Loussier Trio, Fairfield Hall, Croydon, October 16.
Television
Aquarius, in which this week Humphrey Burton divides his time between an interview with David Niven, and a look around Persepolis (the first part of his 'Persian Notebook); ITV, October 9 (Scottish and Tyne Tees, October 10). Review celebrates the ninetieth birthday of P. G. Wodehouse by visiting him at his home on Long Island; BBC2, October 15.
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