8 DECEMBER 1979, page 26

Sad Parable

Paul Ableman Sleepless Days Jurek Becker (Secker £4.95) Some months ago, reviewing Arno Schmidt's The Egghead Republic, I asked rhetorically: which is the more bleakly unfunny,......

Private And Public Pleasures

Rodney Milnes Orfoo ad Euridice, Don Giovanni (Sadler's Wells) Coal fan tufts, Norma (Covent Garden) What is known as 'reverse-touring', or regional companies showing off their......