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Tag Archives: Backstage
Start ’em young
In 1990s in Berkshire, I ran a young people’s performance group, Fable Productions. Students devised, wrote, and performed their own plays. I remember them all. Occasionally, I wrote plays based on students’ ideas. Wonder do they remember me? And … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Women's Fiction, Fiction, Greek Islands, Humour, Leros, Life on the edge, new writing, non-fiction, Personal, Teaching, Theatre, Writers, Writing
Tagged Backstage, contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Greece, Greek Islands, holiday reading, Jigsaw Island, Lynne McVernon, new novel, new writing, Symi, Terrible with Raisins, Women writers, women's fiction, Writing
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Spring silliness…
In my other life, I began working in stage management in the theatre. Got my Equity card for doing a season at Butlin’s Rep. Clacton – of which more another time. This particular gem comes from the Connaught Theatre, Worthing … Continue reading
Posted in Drama, Humour, Theatre, Writing
Tagged Backstage, Connaught Theatre Worthing, David Beale, Humour, Lynne McVernon, Repertory Theatre, Worthing, Writing
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Teacher gets it right
Or ‘Teacher puts it right’. An unpleasant comment from an – older than me ha ha! – ex-fellow student, a postponed NHS appointment and a worrying email from an actor’s agent all conspired to dampen my spirits today. Then a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Humour, non-fiction, Personal, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Backstage, Guildford, Humour, J B Priestley, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
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Happy birthday, dear Will!
Dear Will – whether on not you wrote the plays, you have been a major influence on all of us who ever read painfully aloud from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at school or scratched furiously through an essay on ‘The … Continue reading
Of pubs – and Covent Garden – and backstage – and first love….
I’ve just entered a new short story in a competition and for it delved into memories of very early days working backstage in London’s West End. I am actually old enough to remember the old Covent Garden when it was a fruit, … Continue reading
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