Article: Inspectors praise threatened chaplaincy college in Llandaff; Glowing report on St Michael's College secures its future.

Article: Broken Chaplaincy Centre Theatre ***Until 29 August
The Scotsman;  August 13, 1999 ;     402 words ..."Would you like to see a picture of my daughter? I have a mental one." "A mental picture?" "No, a mental daughter." Phil Porter knows how to hold his audience with a story, and has a cunning eye for ambushing the audience's expectations with some delightful twists. Just the tale about eating

Article: Widows Chaplaincy Centre Theatre ***
The Scotsman;  August 22, 1998 ;     368 words ...Ariel Dorfman and Tony Kushner's harrowing tale of the "disappeared", which was premiered at the Traverse, is energetically, and largely successfully, revived by Bare and Ragged Theatre's young cast. Within the limitations imposed by having a youthful group of actors portraying women of all ages

Article: The Club Chaplaincy Centre Theatre ***
The Scotsman;  August 26, 1998 ;     391 words ...The club, as any detective story reader knows, is a blunt instrument which takes some time to complete its lethal work. The purpose of this production is admirably meritorious, but art is long and time is not particularly fleeting. It is a foursome - benevolent, if overbearing, elder brother,

Article: Dream.2000 Chaplaincy Centre Theatre ***Until 17 ...
The Scotsman;  August 11, 1999 ;     334 words ...Dream.2000 is more anxious to profit by the millennium than to illuminate it, but as a TV show from our present idiotic culture where contestants reveal their dreams to viewers, it is a neat and perceptive satire. Cambridge University Moving Image Studios have supported Activated Image's production

Article: The Dream Catcher Chaplaincy Centre Theatre ***
The Scotsman;  August 25, 1998 ;     380 words ...In the European literary tradition, on the whole, one expects evocation of cosmic forces to lead to conclusions of cosmic significance. It's a kind of blasphemy to dress Merlin up in gold lame, have him breathe defiance at his father Satan, bring in a rain god, and a dance with all the elemental

Article: The Zoo The Chaplaincy Centre Musical ***
The Scotsman;  August 13, 1998 ;     349 words ...The Zoo is Sullivan's affectionate parody of the artifice of the British class system and of operatic plotting all at the same time. The young lover has an incomprehensible opera-style Greek name and the obligatory operatic poor-but-virtuous maiden (a la Mimi) is proved to have a somewhat colourful

Article: The Body Show Chaplaincy Centre Dance *
The Scotsman;  August 31, 1998 ;     299 words ...A 100-year-old Russian ballerina-turned-choreographer discovers her latest muse in the guise of a pizza delivery girl who becomes the star of the old bat's latest creation, The Body Show. The male dancer that pizza girl has replaced in the choreographer's affections (and ballet) is forced to get a