TRP Stories

“We lost any inhibitions and learned to work with lots of different people” 

“Theatre has the ability to change people’s minds and really ignite passions”

“I was really shy at first, and now I’m performing on a stage in front of people, which I would never do before”

“Never in a hundred years would I have thought I’d still be working here. How lucky am I?”

“Performing on a stage that really inspired me, feels like coming full circle”

“Funky Llama has given me so much. I’m a whole new person”

“I’ll be forever grateful for the avenues that TRP have offered me”

“I’ve learned that if I put my mind to what I’m doing, I can focus really well”

“If Theatre Royal Plymouth wasn’t here, I very much doubt I’d be working in theatre”

“There’s nowhere else I’d like to work”

“When I’m doing a performance, I’m able to talk in a way that I never could in real life”

“The theatre gave me aim to live, and hope. Before, I was hopeless”

“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”

“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”

“Everybody has a story. It’s just about everybody having a voice. That’s what theatre should be about”

“I like all the musicals, but I like good plays too. It’s just magic to me, it’s nothing like the cinema”

“Funky Llama gives me something to get up for. It gives me a really good drive and a passion to help others”

“I never thought theatre was for me but it’s opened so many doors in my career”