Do you remember the first time?

Was there a moment when you fell in love with the theatre, or dance, or the opera?Idling around on the internet the other night, I found pictures of the 1986 production of Romeo and Juliet at Stratford. What a shock: I mean, they look so... eighties, did the young Niamh Cusack and the young Sean Bean. It wasn't the first time I'd been to the theatre (there'd been trips to the Victoria Theatre in Stoke and indeed, I think by then I had already seen Kenneth Branagh (even younger than Sean Bean) in...

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