29 AUGUST 1970, page 19

Ballet

Splendours and miseries CLEMENT CRISP By any reasonable standards we ought to be thoroughly sated, even slightly queasy, with the fare offered by the Kirov Ballet night after......

Theatre

Holy terrors KENNETH HURREN Council of Love (Criterion) A month or so ago I broke bread, if the term may be validly applied to a scotch egg and bitter, with an aspiring......

Arts

Keeping ahead with portraiture BRYAN ROBERTSON Portraiture being a subject of much vexed if continual concern, this may be a good time to dart in quickly and venture a comment......

Opera

Hard luck stories RODNEY MILNES The best moment in Colin Graham's new production of The Tales of Hoffmann at the Coliseum is the first. Out of total darkness (not even orchestra......