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| Letter: Rosemary Leach was a wonderful physical actor | Letter: Rosemary Leach was a wonderful physical actor |
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| In 1958-59, Rosemary Leach was in Caryl Jenner’s English Theatre for Children touring company, as were Matyelok Gibbs (who like Rosemary was in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown), Paddy Ward, Deddie Davies and I. The plays were specially written by a friend of Caryl’s and we performed them in infant, junior and secondary schools, sometimes in two different London schools on the same day. We toured as far north as Halifax and as far west as Devon. It was hard work. | In 1958-59, Rosemary Leach was in Caryl Jenner’s English Theatre for Children touring company, as were Matyelok Gibbs (who like Rosemary was in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown), Paddy Ward, Deddie Davies and I. The plays were specially written by a friend of Caryl’s and we performed them in infant, junior and secondary schools, sometimes in two different London schools on the same day. We toured as far north as Halifax and as far west as Devon. It was hard work. |
| Even then Rosemary was a wonderful physical actor. Once, in a theatre, I saw her in rehearsal as an old woman, moving across a bare stage. Alone, away up in the balcony, I was in tears. | Even then Rosemary was a wonderful physical actor. Once, in a theatre, I saw her in rehearsal as an old woman, moving across a bare stage. Alone, away up in the balcony, I was in tears. |
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