6 OCTOBER 1979, page 34

Abstractions

John McEwen The unenviable lot of the successful middle-aged artist is that ordeal by fire, the mid-career retrospective. Currently it is the turn of John Hoyland (Serpentine......

Beast In Man

Ted Whitehead Woyzeck (Paris Pullman) Buchner's Woyzeck (AA) is astonishingly modern for a play written in I 836, resembl ing in its form and tone the work of today's younger......

Shirley's Show

Richard Ingrams After months of sloth and ineptitude the BBC has at last been showing some signs of life. A whole host of new programmes was launched last week and I even found......