24 JULY 1971, page 26

Teacher's Rough And Tumble

KENNETH HURREN Authors with a story to tell such as Simon Gray retails in his new play, Butley, at the Criterion, are usually tactfully evasive about its locale. No such......

Stratford-upon Avon

Unhappy family MARGOT NORMAN If a great playwright could write a great play without any of a great play's faults, it is debatable whether anyone would bother to stage it and......

Revival Of The Fittest

RODNEY MILNES In the world of opera, it is the new productions which get written about and discussed in detail, while the bulk of the repertoire is mode up of revivals, of......