4 SEPTEMBER 1982, page 25

Arts

Filling the opera slot Rodney MrInes W hat role should opera play in a general arts festival like Edinburgh? There has been a certain amount of huffing and puffing this year......

Theatre

Bright revivals Bryan Robertson Hamlet (Young Vic) Relatively Speaking (Greenwich) T here is a good deal to be said for a well spoken, carefully reasoned and paced P r oduction......