What Country Friends Is This?: A Theatrical Journey

What Country Friends Is This?: A Theatrical Journey

by Jaqueline Barnes
What Country Friends Is This?: A Theatrical Journey

What Country Friends Is This?: A Theatrical Journey

by Jaqueline Barnes

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Overview

When they first met in the cellar green room at Colchester Repertory Theatre in 1962, there was little indication that Jaqueline Harrison and Simon Barnes were destined to build a Theatre in Wales and manage and direct its work from 1976 for over 35 years.Despite 'claim jumping' attempts, despite repeated rejections of finance, accompanied by Welsh Arts Council jeers: 'How do you think you can build aTheatre without the Art Council'- LLANDOVERY THEATRE exists todayThese are the records of their journey - comic and tragic by turn, at times even downright dangerous, yet despite working alongside penury and rejection as an almost permanent way of life - dozens of plays were written, produced and performed, and at the final 'parting' both actors still maintained their passion for the magic of Theatre and their love for one another.This memoir is part history, part love story.If you believe in the power of love, don't let this story pass you by. Horatio Nelson - Theatre CatWanted Reckless Band of Angels! Give new life to Llandovery Theatre - Wanted Reckless Band of Angels to support Llandovery Theatre and its creative work, today, to continue the Dream!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781537161006
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 08/31/2016
Pages: 470
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Jaqueline Barnes is Jaqueline Harrison, actor, playwright and director of Llandovery Theatre in South Wales.
Born in Aldershot, her father in the RAF, she spent her first four years in Egypt, before returning to England and a rapid succession of horrible boarding schools. Trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama, her early experiences were working in Repertory Theatre, including Dundee, Lincoln, Leatherhead, Richmond, for the Royal Court in London, and the Colchester Repertory Theatre where she met her husband the actor Simon Barnes. Together they moved to Wales, founded a Theatre Company and built a theatre - Llandovery Theatre,
Currently she writes poetry, and has a novel waiting in the wings, almost ready for publication - Vigil for the Death of Innocence.
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