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The TRP Stories project captures people’s pathways into engaging with Theatre Royal Plymouth and looks at the role the arts has played in their lives.
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Babs Horton
“If you’re thinking of doing something that’s been deep in your heart for a long time, go out there and do it!”
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Tip Cullen
“I will always have those absent friends with me. I want to keep their memories alive”
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Millie Weston-Cooke
“Theatre Royal Plymouth pushed me into a position that I could never have dreamt of”
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Niki McCretton
“Theatre Royal Plymouth is our favourite place to perform”
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Emily Witts
“The Playhouse project was the pivotal moment I decided I wanted to do drama forever”
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Dr Alan Butler
“Everyone’s story matters and everyone has a place in society”
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Gill Boldon
“The theatre has become my whole life and means a great, great deal to me”
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Esmae Taylor-Reeves
“I’m much more confident. Now it’s got me into it, I want to do it even more!”
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Jade Campbell & Polly Ferguson-Carruthers
“We wanted to make a show that people could relate to”
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Issie Sutlow & Samuele Kilkenny-Marlton
“I think Young Company has made me a happier person”
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Mikey Brooks
“It’s been my dream to perform in the theatre with my own material”
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Jenny Shryane
“I’m always, always learning which is what I love about theatre”
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Chris Gilchrist & Drew Shears
“Even if I tried to escape dance, I think it would always pull me back in”
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Bonnie Heath
“We lost any inhibitions and learned to work with lots of different people”
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Sara Lamerton
“Theatre has the ability to change people’s minds and really ignite passions”
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Jakira Matos Sequeira Fernandes
“I was really shy at first, and now I’m performing on a stage in front of people, which I would never do before”
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Sadie Norsworthy
“Never in a hundred years would I have thought I’d still be working here. How lucky am I?”
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Theo Clinkard
“Performing on a stage that really inspired me, feels like coming full circle”
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Ally Bryan
“Funky Llama has given me so much. I’m a whole new person”
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Philippa Gunning
“I’ll be forever grateful for the avenues that TRP have offered me”
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Zach Lauder
“I’ve learned that if I put my mind to what I’m doing, I can focus really well”
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Laura Horton
“If Theatre Royal Plymouth wasn’t here, I very much doubt I’d be working in theatre”
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Chris White
“When I’m doing a performance, I’m able to talk in a way that I never could in real life”
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Ferri Feredouni
“The theatre gave me aim to live, and hope. Before, I was hopeless”
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Millie Brolly
“There is such a need for theatre in Devon and Cornwall. It’s so rurally isolated that having access to theatre for young people here is so important”
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Berni Molton
“I’m a normal member of society now, thanks to the theatre. My children have got their mum back, and without it, I don’t know where I’d be”
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Voodoo Monkeys
“Everybody has a story. It’s just about everybody having a voice. That’s what theatre should be about”
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Clive Rowe
“Because I’m bipolar, I try and stay in the moment. That’s why theatre is good for me”
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Tom Nicholas
“I’ve done about a million different things since I left school but the skills I picked up during Young Company have massively informed all of it”
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Joan Lucas
“I like all the musicals, but I like good plays too. It’s just magic to me, it’s nothing like the cinema”
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Olivia Frost
“Funky Llama gives me something to get up for. It gives me a really good drive and a passion to help others”
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Perry Johnson
“I never thought theatre was for me but it’s opened so many doors in my career”