2006

SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2006

Mary was very busy throughout the term. On October 3rd at Crich Carr Primary School, Derbyshire, she premiered her new play: ‘FLORENCE’. This was a play about Florence Nightingale and was especially commissioned by the school, which is just down the road from the village of Lee, where Florence Nightingale lived as a child. The children dressed up as Victorian people and injured soldiers, and after a short rehearsal at the beginning of the performance, Mary incorporated then in scenes from her play. Afterwards she performed another of her plays: ‘The Secret’, which also is about Victorian times. The pupils expressed their pleasure to a reporter from ‘The Matlock Mercury’ and ‘The Derbyshire Times’ (who was present throughout the performances) with ten year oldJack Caulton saying, “I wanted to find out what happened next all the way through.”

APRIL-AUGUST 2006

JANUARY-APRIL 2006

Beginning on January 3rd until April 2006 Mary was working a regular 2-3 days each week in a variety of venues. The work in most of these was mainly project based necessitating visiting the same venue several times. Some of this work was under the auspices of her organisation, Action Arts, details of which may be found on that website at: www.actionarts.co.uk

In addition to her usual work in schools, Mary gave performances at the new Intake and Belle Vue Children’s Centre Doncaster when it was formally opened by Gervaise Phinn, taught drama workshops for the NSPCC at a Derbyhire centre and gave performances at the Oakham festival. Two training days for nursery teachers and staff were given at Doncaster.

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