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Anna Whitehouse's avatar

Great Post Clare. I was taught The Waste Land at A level at loved it. When I did my Theatre Studies degree, a third year director adapted it for the stage snd I got to play Madame Sosostris among other characters , which resulted in me becoming besotted with it! I'd love you to do a readying.

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Clare Pollard's avatar

Madame Sosostris! What a role!

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Anna Whitehouse's avatar

It was! I also played the woman in the pub, and the director made me rehearse it in a busy pub, which was fun but a bit embarrassing!

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Terry Sherwood's avatar

Thanks, Clare, for this. It brings back happy memories of childhood holidays including having fun at Dreamland and on the crazy golf greens. It's intriguing to think that I have walked the same promenade as T S Eliot.

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Clare Pollard's avatar

Always wonder if he might have played a round of crazy golf...

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Terry Sherwood's avatar

Yes! Makes me think of Wendy Cope's 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis'. Maybe there's a poem in this.

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