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.
Jade Campbell & Polly Ferguson-Carruthers
“We wanted to make a show that people could relate to”
Issie Sutlow & Samuele Kilkenny-Marlton
“I think Young Company has made me a happier person”
Chris Gilchrist & Drew Shears
“Even if I tried to escape dance, I think it would always pull me back in”
Bonnie Heath
“We lost any inhibitions and learned to work with lots of different people”
Sara Lamerton
“Theatre has the ability to change people’s minds and really ignite passions”
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”
Sadie Norsworthy
“Never in a hundred years would I have thought I’d still be working here. How lucky am I?”
Theo Clinkard
“Performing on a stage that really inspired me, feels like coming full circle”
Ally Bryan
“Funky Llama has given me so much. I’m a whole new person”
Philippa Gunning
“I’ll be forever grateful for the avenues that TRP have offered me”
Zach Lauder
“I’ve learned that if I put my mind to what I’m doing, I can focus really well”
Laura Horton
“If Theatre Royal Plymouth wasn’t here, I very much doubt I’d be working in theatre”
Chris White
“When I’m doing a performance, I’m able to talk in a way that I never could in real life”
Ferri Feredouni
“The theatre gave me aim to live, and hope. Before, I was hopeless”
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”
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”
Voodoo Monkeys
“Everybody has a story. It’s just about everybody having a voice. That’s what theatre should be about”
Clive Rowe
“Because I’m bipolar, I try and stay in the moment. That’s why theatre is good for me”
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”
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”
Olivia Frost
“Funky Llama gives me something to get up for. It gives me a really good drive and a passion to help others”
Perry Johnson
“I never thought theatre was for me but it’s opened so many doors in my career”