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Singing for the Brain
Our Ruth Helps People with Fading Memories – and so can you! Ruth is joined by her fellow…
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A Queenly Pudding
A Queenly Pudding for the Fairy Queen Our 2019 production of Iolanthe set us thinking about fairies. Queen…
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Sally Lunn
Hippies and buns The Sorcerer and Sally Lunn, a legendary connection. Our 2013 production of The Sorcerer saw…
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Child minding
Alhambra enrols the infant prince into Baptisto’s childminding service. To paraphrase Don Alhambra: “I stole the Prince and…
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South Pacific Squeeze
Blitz yourself a fruity squeeze from Wolverton G&S Songs from Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” brought…
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We do not care a fig
Young Strephon is the kind of lout we do not care a fig about! Our 2019 production of…
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Boston Beans
Baked beans and the Wild West Our ultimately doomed production of Calamity Jane turned our thoughts to the…
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Ring a ring of roses
During the dark days of the pandemic, a bit of light relief in the post by our Publicity…
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Hebe in HMS Pinafore
The Name is Bond – Jessie Bond By the 1890s, Jessie Charlotte Bond was at the peak of…
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Cartoon – Crocs
Oh Hun. I’d walk a mile in your shoes to to feel your pain. Unless they’re crocs of…
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Poem – stuck inside
Stuck Inside – A Pandemic Poem by Annie Parker Twas the beginning of the year, the decs had…
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Armenian spiced cake
We were all worrying about our comeback date during lock down. Here’s our take on dates and cake…
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The first Frederic – Llewellyn Cadwaladr
Piracy in Paignton? How the Pirates of Penzance came to Devon. Allow me to introduce you to Arthur…
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Cartoon – Beads and Trinkets
Sadly we had to cancel our production of Calamity Jane because of the pandemic. “Where the Injun arrows…
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Cartoon – Cup and Sorcery
Something in the tea Aline? The philtre? You have tasted it? Oh yesh…….
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Cartoon – Iolanthe auditions
“Enter fairy – up right” is a stage direction. Not to be confused with “Enter fairy – upright”.…
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Sullivan’s Kippers
Both Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert enjoyed being wealthy and living well but Gilbert thought Sullivan profligate…
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