6 AUGUST 1965, page 15

Theatre

Laughter in the Dark b lack Comedy is essentially a technical D triumph. By the simple device of reversing the stage conventions of light and dark- ness, the mechanics of farce......

Ballet

A Corps of Ballets p ICKING, one's way through the ballet thickets (on one memorable Sunday recently I calcu- late that more than 20,000 Londoners went to the ballet), what......

Music Frenzy At The Wells

1117. New Opera Company's startling produc- tion of Prokofiev's The Angel of Fire, com- posed between 1919 and 1927, though never performed in its entirety until 1954, crammed......