14 FEBRUARY 1981, page 27

Home And Away

John McEwen Contemporary French artists are about as rare a sight in England as golden orioles. This is because French art, at least in highbrow London circles, is generally......

Butterfly

Peter Jenkins The Suicide (RSC, Aldwych) A frantic flowering of the intelligence and the arts followed the Russian Revolution in 1917. It didn't last long; in the theatre it......

Weighty

Richard In grams It was a heavy cultural weekend at the BBC what with Gounod's Faust and The Winter's Tale on successive nights. Faust was another of Humphrey Burton's posh......