The most eye-catching production is Trans Scripts at the Pleasance.
This is a small, observational, "stuff happens" drama, inflated by Dominic Cooke's slick, eye-catching production and made exceptionally watchable by Lyndsey Marshal, who manages to capture Lucy's mixture of vulnerability and manipulation, innocence and knowingness.
He was not afraid, however, to risk charges of apostasy with headline-catching productions such as a 400-strong Messiah in the Hollywood Bowl during the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 and a semi-staging of the oratorio in the Deutsche Oper Berlin for the Handel tercentenary the following year.
But there's an inhibited quality here that keeps the production from catching fire.
I'm late in catching up with this production, which runs in repertory through Aug. 13.
"Now production is catching up to demand, so we are adjusting our schedule to balance our inventory," he said.
2.23am BST There was a tiny lag in the pictures reaching my production desk, catching up now.
"Last year and some of this year we've worked a lot of overtime to keep up with demand, and now production's catching up to demand and we need to balance our inventory," said Trevor Hale, a DaimlerChrysler spokesman.
If Tesla can spare a car or two to put in showrooms around the country, that's a good sign that it's catching up on its production queue.
You can also support your local theaters by catching your community's production of Miss Saigon or taking in the Audrey Hepburn retrospective at the art-house cinema, rather than forking over big bucks at the giant megaplex.
Briers starred in a number of productions after catching the acting bug and, taking advice from his father's cousin, the comic actor Terry-Thomas, went on to study at Rada for two years.
