THE SEAGULL
Jersey Arts Centre / Samares Players / November 2006
ANNIE
Jersey Arts Centre / JADC 75th / May 2014
Dear Gabrielle Robbe / Browning
i shall miss working with you...
seeing you in the EVITA chorus and wanting to know who you were; then coming back and finding out; then casting you as Irina in THE SEAGULL; loving your Maria Von Trapp, your 'hairspray' and your Lady M (amongst many); and watching you dance on those Liberation Days...
watching you take such great care of the kids in ANNIE; laughing together in rehearsal; eating sweets (too many sweets) with you; meeting up for just 20 minutes to plan rehearsals in lunch breaks; the improvisations and the kids telling us they didn't know they had it in them; your Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-T-Towel-Dance; you telling me: "you should have done that more often" when I threw a wobbly about insecurity of text at a Dress Rehearsal; and always, always being positive amidst the stupid and crazy ideas; watching you be on stage, in the wings, and in row J almost all at the same time to check shapes (i loved that!)...
your bloody brilliantly inspired and dynamic Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-T-Towel-Dance in ANNIE...
talking with you about water and dancing and theatre...
going with the flow...
i can think of nothing that will do you justice as a dancer, choreographer, performer, actor and maker...
but who will choreograph for me now...
you are loved and missed by many who have known you so much longer than i...
i am sure i will work with Finleigh and Guy again...
i am sure i will work with Finleigh and Guy again...
it was lovely seeing you and talking with you so much these past 18 months...
we shall miss you kid
love
D A N I E L
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