13 JULY 1985, page 30

Theatre

Red Noses (RSC Barbican) The Duchess of Maffi (Lyttelton) A restrained production Christopher Edwards P eter Barnes provided Sir Harold Hob - son with the last of the four......

Records

Piano pieces Peter Phillips T he last few weeks have yielded an impressive batch of records for solo piano. The bulk of their repertoire is not new, but the interpreters are all......

Cinema

Going down like a bomb Peter Ackroyd S ince it opens in West Germany, and combines a suspicious suitcase with a markedly Teutonic blonde, the scenario is at once clear to anyone......