HTS the end

Well I'm sitting here typing this while I wait for an ebay auction to end, really I just want to go to bed as I am coming down with a cold - but here are the last of the HTS shots.

Round and Round the Garden by Alan Ayckbourn

Below - some of my headshots

I have realised that I missed a show I did called Just for Laughs - I will share those with you another time

Hertfordshire Theatre School 1995

Ah HTS was a blast

 Places

 The Orestia

Deathtrap

Interestingly Newport Playgoers are staging a production of Deathtrap in January - I'm not in it but will be working backstage on sound

1994

Below: Every spring we would do a themed show of sings, some would be form Musicals, some would be pop and rock songs, the theme in 1994 was Directions, so songs from Miss Saigon and Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat were performed along side a comedy version of Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man.

And A Little Love Besides - by Allan Plater -this was performed in the studio

Drama School

In 1993 I was lucky enough to go to drama school, for three years I trained at Hertfordshire Theatre School in Hitchin Hertfordshire,

under the direction of Kirk Foster, John Gardiner (Dracula Spectacular and Dazzle) and Anne-Marie Lewis-Thomas, the truth is those three years were the happiest years of my life and the things I learned there have stayed with me through the years.

 Above as Beryl from A talk in the Park by Alan Ayckboourn - we only did a scene from this but I remember how exciting it was.

Below, various costumes and characters in Second From Last in the Sack Race by Michael Birch

From the Roaring 20's to Outer Space!

Today we continue the tour of my scrapbooks and the plays I was in that have led me gently to the Dolman and Newport Playgoers.

So there were 2 more shows before I ran off to drama school in Hertfordshire.

 In Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone I ended up playing 2 parts - both men due to the shortage of male actors, this was fins by me as I got to shoot myself in the face with custard as one of the hoodlums in Fat Sam's gang and got to sing So you want to be a boxer as Cagey Joe - I still have my copy of the script signed by the case and crew.

In one of the more embarrassing of my theatrical exploits I wore a bin bag and a scull cap painted yellow in Big Zoo, one of those shows devised by the cast - In this story the Dozers blast their way across the universe laying waste to every planet in their wake. On their way they meet the peaceful Trashers and a revolution led by yours truly takes place.