27 OCTOBER 1979, page 25

Tour De Force

Polly Toynbee Hamlet (New Half Moon Theatre) You Never Can Tell (Lyric, Hammersmith) Middle Age Spread (Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue) The week's most astounding performance was,......

Opera

Rave Rodney Mines La %delta premlata and Fidelio (GTO, Oxford) Glyndebourne Touring Opera could well become the Glyndebourne Festival's most dangerous enemy: the level of......

Cinema

White guilt Ted Whitehead Zulu Dawn (Classic, Haymarket) 'I write in a moment of the greatest distress . . . ' scribbles Lt. Colonel Pulleine as 25,000 bloodthirsty Zulus swarm......

Television

Enigmas Richard Ingrams At least we all now know which one was the Mole. It was Toby. No hang on, I mean Percy. No not Percy, he was the one with the pipe wasn't he? Yes, of......