21 SEPTEMBER 1956, page 15

Contemporary Arts

Diable Au Corps Now that the London season of the Berliner Ensemble is over, it is both possible and desirable for a critic in this country to estimate Brecht's place in the......

The Canticum Sacrum.

As in 1951, the great event of the Venice Festival this year is a new work by Stravinsky, specially commissioned for St. Mark's Cathe- dral. Rumour had it at first that the new......

Perennial Problem

CYMBELINE. (Old Vic.) THERE is a perennial problem about minor Elizabethan plays—whether to produce them with a completely straight face, let the grotesque strands of plot and......