Class questions
IF you are accosted in the foyer of your local multiplex by someone with a clipboard,
do not run away. It may be a representative of the British Board of Film Classification, which is conducting a wide-ranging survey of the public into perceptions of its work. Boxes ticked on a 20-question questionnaire is all that is required, and the board is particularly concerned to hear how its new 12A certificate is being seen across the country.
BBFC director Robin Duval says: ''Public opinion does not always move one way. It is more than three years since we consulted so it will be interesting to see if attitudes have shifted and, if so, which way.''
You can also join in by logging on to the board's website at www.bbfc.co.uk
Guaranteed laughs
THE programme for the second annual Glasgow Comedy Festival is nearing completion, we are told, and will feature both Dora Bryan and Jerry Sadowitz, though sadly not on the same stage at the same time.
The director, cheery Tommy Sheppard, promises more than 130 performances between Wednesday, March 17, and Saturday, April 3, including film, theatre and children's shows as well as cabaret. The programme will be launched at Glasgow City Chambers on January 22 by that well-known double-act Cameron and MacAulay (that's Lord Provost Liz and comic and broadcaster Fred).
Rep gets new record
A DISTINCT tone of yah-boo-sucks is detectable in the latest press missive from Dundee Rep, which takes its Twelfth Night to venues across Scotland later this month and follows that
up with a tour of its terrific production of lost Kander and Ebb musical Flora the Red Menace in the summer. It boasts of a record-breaking run for its Christmas show, a revival of Stuart Paterson's version of Peter Pan, originally staged by TAG Theatre Company at the Tramway. Although it had a shorter run than last year's Snow White, audiences were nevertheless up 12% on last year and the show played
to 95%-full houses and nearly 20,000 people.
This was achieved, the statement notes, ''despite adverse publicity in some areas of the press (not this neighbourhood, we should add) at the start of the production, regarding the play's suitability for young people.''
Tayside weans are obviously made of sterner stuff.
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