10 APRIL 1982, page 27

Theatre

Botched butchery Mark Amory Arden of Faversham (Other Place, Strat- ford) Macbeth (Memorial, Stratford) A Coat of Varnish (Haymarket) A non has had a critical buffeting lately.......

Television

Unearthed Richard Ingrams M y favourite programme, Did You See ..? (BBC 2), contrives to dig up the most wonderful bores. The latest was a man called Denis Donoghue, a bespecta-......

Cinem A

Old fashioned boy Peter Ackroyd on screen recently, there was a great deal of excitement — and, since we had im- a gined that there was nothing there at all, t he excitement was......