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  • Rose Double Plus

    I know that something is wrong when I look at the website and see that Stephen Unwin has managed to post more blogs than I have. So, I'm rolling up my cybersleeves with plenty to say after a very welcome spring holiday.

  • 33 Actors and 3 Volunteers

    Last week was taken over for me by our Rose Plus production of The Crucible. It is in the nature of community theatre, I suppose, that a long, sporadic rehearsal period is followed by an intensive week dominated by notes that should probably have given much earlier in the process.

  • Rooms, Tents and Rental

    I watched the Rose Plus Playersend of term showing of Hay Fever on Monday.

  • Bands of Brothers

    Lucy Hughes, head of drama at Tiffin Boys, very kindly invited me to adjudicate the school’s house drama competition last Wednesday. I didn’t really know what to expect and, having worked a lot recently on Ibsen, I suppose I was set for something quite heady and curriculum-based. Far from it.

  • Exit Nora

    Last weekend was a pretty busy one for Rose Youth Theatre: the seniors took their two showings of A Doll’s House over to the Arthur Cotterell Theatre in Kingston College. There were some fabulous performances.

  • New Spaces

    Carol Croom, an English teacher at Tolworth Girls School, invited me to work with her students on Monday and run a workshop around the subjects of Victorian literature and ‘love through the ages’.