What extra-curricular activities did you do when you were a kid? Football? Swimming lessons? Something else normal?
Well we went to an amateur dramatics society. All of us.
Here we are in ‘Oliver!’ I think my dad was the Doctor, mum was some kind of housekeeper/workhouse woman (still acting the part in the photo) and us kids were street urchins.
Debbie had a speaking part but me and Pete were just there to look mucky and bulk out Fagin’s gang, I think.
I’m pretty sure we burned corks and smudged them over our skin, though that sounds kind of dangerous, so maybe I have remembered that incorrectly. I definitely put cold cream in my hair to make it look greasy.
Here’s a tip: never put cold cream in your hair.
It took weeks to wash it all out.
Hard to believe, but this wasn’t the highlight of my stage career. Oh no. I was also Bashful in ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’. Thankfully, I don’t think any photographic evidence survived.
Brilliant! I also come from an am-dram family 🙂 Mum was into it and quite good actually! I dabbled, but wasn’t very good!!!! I love the photo xx
Thank you! My mum loves hamming it up, the rest of us, not so much! We had fun though xx
Ha brilliant photo.
I loved drama at school and was always in the Christmas play.
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Ah Christmas plays were such fun weren’t they! Xx
Oh wow! I love that all of you did this together! My sister and I did gymnastics but we didn’t stay long and that was only 2 out of 7 of us. we never did anything altogether like this!
Wow seven?! I guess finding something that you all liked would have been tricky! Xx
haha what a brilliant thing to do as a family! My Mum and her family did something similar. I bet your have some more pics somewhere! Thanks for linking with #throwbackthursday and see you soon x