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The Music Teacher – A One Woman Play In 4 Parts – Part 4

PART 4 Well for the following couple of days, the beginning of last week actually, I wondered round in a daze, teaching by remote control.  I don’t remember half the things we covered but I suppose my notes will tell me and I had lost touch with any kind of progress in the tutorials.  I knew there was something fundamentally… (more…)

The Music Teacher – A One Woman Play In 4 Parts – Part 3

THE MUSIC TEACHER – PART 3 At the end of the lesson, he stood up and said “thank you, Miss” and left and do you know, except for glimpses of him in the playground and on the corridor that was the last I saw of him.  He did not turn up for anymore lessons, I reported it to Mr Frost… (more…)

The Music Teacher – A One Woman Play In 4 Parts – Part 2.

THE MUSIC TEACHER – PART 2 Anyway the upshot was that I started at Bede’s on 9th September 1959 at the beginning of the Christmas term.  The week before, I had left the family home for good so that I could concentrate on what was going to be my new life.  Travelling between Alkrington and St Bede’s College was too… (more…)

The Music Teacher – A One Woman Play In 4 Parts – Part 1

Just after Christmas this year I wrote the draft of a play because I was asked to but now is not  required.  It is a semi-fictitious account of what was going on at St Bede’s College in the period I was there 1957-1963.  It was written as a one woman show and is a draft version, the director and producer… (more…)

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