25 OCTOBER 1969, page 22

Arts

Monkey business JOHN HIGGINS Both the London opera companies have so far managed to steer a course clear of Hans Werner Henze. From time to time there have been powerful......

Art

Upstream BRYAN ROBERTSON The insistence on fashion in art, with its automatic disposal of whatever precedes the new wave, claims many victims. It can also cause such confusion......

Theatre

Poor health ROBERT CUSHMAN The National Health (Old Vic) The Stafford Cripps ward, in Peter Nichols's The National Health, is a decaying relic from which the beds are......