A fine adaptation of a David Hare play only serves to expose the poor quality of scripts produced especially for the small screen

When Robert Hazard dashed off "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" in 20 minutes in the shower, he never expected what he called this "kind of silly song" to become a worldwide smash for him, or anybody else for that matter.

Reprazent's return made me uneasy. Dance music dates quickly, and jungle/drum'*'bass's moment passed when Reprazent beat Radiohead, Primal Scream, Chemical Brothers and Prodigy to 1997's Mercury Music Prize. Surely your heyday is over when your music is being sampled by a new generation of producers, as is the case with Reprazent's "Brown Paper Bag" and dubstep prodigy Benga's track "M2"?

Despite the heroic overtones of his stage name, tonight is more a case of get cape, fumble, recover, as this idiosyncratic solo artist struggles with the richer soundscapes of his second album. Maybe the fact that Sam Duckworth, to give him his real name, is wearing glasses means that he is more Clark Kent than Superman.

The rubric of the Royal Court has always been to produce new plays as if they were classics and classic plays as if they were new. Clearly, they have chosen well for the regime change that will happen next January. Artistic director Dominic Cooke turns that philosophy into wondrous theatre in these paired, artfully cross-cast and promenade productions for the RSC.

WHITE FACES are as prominent as black ones in a list of the 100 most influential people in British black music published this week by Touch magazine.

RAM TRILOGY: MOLTEN BEATS

VARIOUS ARTISTS: FREEZONE 6: FOURTH PERSON SINGULAR

BREAKBEAT ERA: ULTRA OBSCENE (XL Recordings)

PROMS 49 & 50 ROYAL ALBERT HALL/ RADIO 3 LONDON

GOLDIE RONI SIZE THE FULL CYCLE CREW SEVERNSHED BRISTOL

Fresh 'n' Funky has been running for longer than I can remember on what used to be considered a "dead night" - Wednesday. But the event seems to produce the same level of intense revelry each week.

NITIN SAWHNEY V&A MUSEUM LONDON

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