Really it was the last thing any of us wanted to do, but we loved the Playhouse and Judy so much we did it. “The pantomimes were remarkable performances,
many of the Dartmouth Players came to join us for it and we had a fantastic time. The piano player was lovely but he was a bit deaf so he never heard his cues, it was brilliant,” Emilie laughs. The company became a close-knit band of maturing
young performers, led by Stephen under the benevolent eye of Judy. She encouraged him to develop his ideas, to trust his instincts and bring together plays of remarkable ambition for such a young company. “Stephen was great,” said Emilie. “We would often spend a day or more in workshops on the play and on our characters – we had to research them and bring ideas to rehearsals. i was amazed when i joined other groups to find out that they used these things called ‘scripts’. Stephen would expect you to know the story and know your character – he would then rehearse and if a scene wasn’t working he would change the lines. He expected you to know why the change had been made and remember the new lines. The amazing thing is, we did. We loved the playhouse so much, with such a passion, that we gave everything to it.” However, nothing lasts forever: the Strolling Playhouse is no more. Judy passed away in 2007 aged 88. Stephen Roberts went to RADA, changed his name to Stephen beresford and became first an actor and then a playwright. his first full-length play, the Last of the Haussmans, was performed at the National Theatre with Julie Walters in the main role: a woman called Judy who was partly inspired by the woman who inspired him. I ask Emilie what she thinks is the legacy of the
Playhouse. “Every one of us loved it so much and it made a
massive impression on us all,” she said. “It challenged us to learn and be inspired about what we were doing. We are still all great friends and all have a love of drama, literature, history and art. It was hysterical fun and it was such a natural, organic process. To get that kind of reaction out of children you have to inspire them and teach them – Stephen and Judy did that.”•
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