My friend (and boss!) Terry is still in contact with one of the best teachers I ever had: Sue, my former Drama and Theatre Studies teacher. (I say former quite deliberately instead of “old”, as a) she’d kill me, and b) she doesn’t look like she’s aged a day since I first knew her!). But I digress. I saw her briefly over Christmas and she promised to dig out some photos from back in the day. You can take a look below, I can’t remember (or work out) how old I am in the dance workshop pictures - I’m sure Sue will be able to remind me!
The top picture is the cast of the Caucasian Chalk Circle, which I did the lighting for, and my good friend Tom actually starred in instead of hiding behind the scenes with me.
The last pic is one of Tom from around the same time.
The other two are much earlier pics, from some dance workshop thing I vaguely recall taking part in. Again I’m hoping Sue will be able to remind me of the details! Also Tom and I are both hoping she can track down a photo she used to have of Tom and I hanging off the ladder into the lighting box, if she has it, it’ll have been 9 years since Tom and I last saw it!
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The only people I can name in this are Becky Stone, Liz Benford, Sarah Spencer, Ben Harwood, Clare Martin, Karen Purdy and Me! A lot of these must have been the year below me.
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Both of these pics show (left to right) Jo Goldsworthy, Richard Kerrison, Zoe Belcher, Me(!), Gemma Ellis and Nicola Haswell. Sad to say I have no idea what any of them are doing any more.
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I think the guy behind Tom is Henry Street, but I couldn’t swear to that being his name. I’m terrible with the names of people I went to school with!
Time flies eh? That is indeed Henry Street standing behind me. I played Simon Chachava in the Caucasian Chalk Cirle - a very Brechtian play. I even had to propose and dance on stage. The last time I trod the boards, sadly. Howard ran the lights, I helped to design them. Ahh, the days of Da Krew!