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Theatre

Beat 'em or Join 'em By ALAN BRIEN THE title of this play gives you immediately a clue to what is wrong with it. You just cannot have a velvet shotgun. I know it is a metaphor,......

Cinema

Too Real . By ISABEL QUIGLY Kanal. (Academy.) THE Polish war film Kanal (direc- tor: Andrzej Wajda; 'X' certifi- cate) raises the question of how far —quite apart from......

Opera

Here and There By- BERNARD LEVIN D ' HERE, The Trojans at Covent . 41 ‘ Garden;t h here, a Figaro says r s h o the e ta d G i l s yn n ci c e e - b The e m sixtyis odd miles ;......