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In 1958 schoolboy David Wood – determined on a career in theatre – attended a residential youth drama week at Lodge Hill, Pulborough, West Sussex.“I went every year after that. Quite the best week of my life,” he says. “The courses were run by the inspirational Frank Whitbourn who later became my mentor for many years. He was always the first to read my scripts until he died at aged ninety-four in 2005.”David kept copies of most of his letters from Frank and, because many of them were dictated and then typed for him by an assistant, he had copies of most of his own letters. So there’s an almost complete record of the Whitbourn / Wood correspondence now published (June 2023) as Frank Exchanges. It makes a fascinatingly insightful account of a long, successful career in children’s theatre not least thanks to excellent editing by Chris Abbott who is, of course, no stranger to Sardines.
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