5 DECEMBER 1970, page 31

Ballet

Out and about CLEMENT CRISP The Manchester premiere of Kenneth Mac- Millan's new ballet, Checkpoint, was one of those occasions calculated to, give a stage manager nightmares......

Records

Against the odds RODNEY MILNES Anyone concocting a parody of nineteenth- century opera would have to turn for inspira- tion to Donizetti's Anna Bolena. It has got the lot. The......