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Should I Consider Theatre School for My Child?

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Should I Consider Theatre School for My Child? If you have a musically gifted or otherwise theatrical child, theatre school is worth considering. It can offer them the platform that they need to find their way into the industry whilst also continuing with their education. It’s often a misconception that stage schools focus solely on […]

Curtain up on getting your theatre tickets…

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I love a night at the theatre – the whole experience, from overture to curtain call via over-priced ice cream.   I go as often as I can to see as many different shows as I can – last week I was, in equal measure, baffled and beguiled by Scottish Opera’s production of Nixon in […]

Is anyone else losing their marbles?

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Sometimes I find that I have dropped not just the ball, but the rest of the equipment and most of my clothes. I don’t want to make a drama about it, but it does seem to have been particularly theatre-related this year. First there was the time that Boy Two and I headed off into […]

Change, Change, Change… Change of Life

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What happens when you trap almost 500 middle-aged women into a confined space for a couple of hours? Wherever you are on the oestrogen spectrum, you’d be inclined to think that the outcome would be, to say the least, tetchy. Especially if some of the women had had their gin confiscated. But you’d be wrong. […]