Have to agree, after Uni I got a job woking in a theatre using my experince at school while I tried to get funding for a phd. 13 or so years later I still haven't done the phd and i've worked in the arts/entertainment industry ever since....my dad still thinks I should get a proper job. Whenever I get asked about my career I always say it started when I went on stage aged 12 in a school production of La Traviata and say how ucky we were to have such a resource.paddy wrote: the theatre was very important as part of my eductation in all kinds of ways. What a fabulous luxury for a school to have!
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I remember trying to explain to people in my post-CH life what the theatre was like and how professionally it was run - shows weren't a case of pulling back the curtain on a dais in the school hall. It has the most unusual smell too. On a revisit to school with the hubby and kids, going in there knocked me for six and took me right back to being a fairy in Midsummer Night's Dream in 1985/6, Jungle Book (with the now famous Si 'James' D'Arcy), Macbeth and of course Col A's runaway success, The Pied Piper!
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The theatre is hard to explain to people, especially when you add it was a boarding school so people automatically assume you're loaded which is far from the case.cj wrote:I remember trying to explain to people in my post-CH life what the theatre was like and how professionally it was run - shows weren't a case of pulling back the curtain on a dais in the school hall. It has the most unusual smell too. On a revisit to school with the hubby and kids, going in there knocked me for six and took me right back to being a fairy in Midsummer Night's Dream in 1985/6, Jungle Book (with the now famous Si 'James' D'Arcy), Macbeth and of course Col A's runaway success, The Pied Piper!
As for the smell I know exactly what you mean, the smell is not unique to CH everytime I go backstage at theatres I tend to get hit by that smell, it takes me right back too.
Be prepapred, I have photos of the productions of Dream and Jungle Book I'm gonig to post here eventually ......
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I may have to go awol then.adlop wrote:Be prepapred, I have photos of the productions of Dream and Jungle Book I'm gonig to post here eventually ......
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