Because of what appear to have been artistic differences'' Dallas Roberts left the production at the technical rehearsal

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Because of what appear to have been "artistic differences'', Dallas Roberts left the production at the technical rehearsal. The key part of Amanda's son has been attractively filled by Christian Slater, fresh from his success as McMurphy in the West End revival of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.In Williams's memory play, Tom Wingfield is the filter through which we view the Depression years before the Second World War and the quietly disastrous consequences of the mother's aspirations for her progeny. Brought to beautifully sensitive life by the British director Leveaux, the production manages to be both tragic-comic and poetic, tough and yet delicate as the tiny glass figurines on to which the shy, crippled daughter (a compelling Sarah Paulson) has sidetracked her powers of devotion. So Kenwright must have felt he owed the actress an opening on her native soil.Lange brilliantly portrays Amanda Wingfield, a quintessential Williams-style faded Southern belle - a deserted, d?ass?ingle mother whose badgering fussiness and nostalgia have blighted the lives of her two (now adult) children. The Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions will soon mean that every landlord will have to have an energy use survey done every five years for every property.Even the recently introduced Tenancy Deposit Scheme comes in for criticism, even though it was set up as the result of an ARLA initiative.

"The Government wants a raft of competing tenancy deposit schemes instead of just one, which will baffle everybody," he says. Jordan adds that even the Chancellor's promise to cut the number of regulators from 39 to nine will not help the private rented sector because the Government has consistently refused to appoint any regulators at all."The Government wanted to regulate but won't take the logical step of setting up a regulatory body for the sector," he says.The lack of an overall regulatory body for private rentals means that cowboys can prosper, according to Jordan. He says: "A lot of rogue landlords and agents live in the twilight zone and they will just continue to ignore it all completely and they will not be picked up. I am very keen on the Australian model where they have specific regulatory regimes but marry it with a high- speed court process."According to James Scott-Lee, the chairman of Chancellors estate agents and chairman of the lettings group of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the main victims of the proposal will be small investors."I think the new regulations are going to be seen as very complex and expensive, and loads of people will ask if they can cope. Relief comes in the form of the gravedigger's son (Bryan Dick), who takes pity on the old king But the moment of compassion soon passes. The young man is murdered for his act of kindness; his baby is slaughtered; and his widow, Cordelia, is raped and then transformed into the merciless head of a people's army.Bond has said that he writes about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners, and in its graphic depiction of the cruelty of which humans are so coolly capable - blood spurting, guts spilling, eyes popping - Lear left me shaken, not stirred To 2 April (0114 249 6000). To the accompaniment of stuttering gunfire, the roar of fighter jets, squealing pigs and mellifluous birdsong, Bond's glittering and brittle dialogue is searing in its intensity.

Kent's direction is astute in its subtle pointing-up of the contemporary political resonances in the writing. The Halle doesn't need the permission of a former home secretary to celebrate Englishness. At the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank, the 63-year-old Traor? appearance as part of the Africa Remix Festival brought a legend down to earth with an extraordinary performance to an expectant, sell-out audience.He appears to an auditorium of applause that looks set to last as long as his absence from these shores. Most people thought he was dead until his rediscovery in 1987.The revival of his flowing, melodic blues - influenced by American rock'n'roll and rooted in West Malian kassonke music - is one of those tales of chance that makes the music's survival all the more precious.