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BACK ON stage!

‘I was so happy to be back, I wept tears of gratitude’

‘I’ll treasure every opportunity in 2022!’

Siân Howard, 63, is a theatre actress. She lives in Surrey with husband Philip Day, 63, and has a son Alex, 27, and daughter Amy, 25.

Standing on stage alongside my fellow actors, everyone was smiling because we all knew we were part of something special. I thought it would be peculiar to look out at an audience wearing face masks, but I could see when they were beaming. It had been 18 months since lockdown started and I was so happy to be back, I wept tears of gratitude.

The show, , had been created by Tamara to get performers and audiences interacting again. She knew that every writer, composer and lighting designer was desperate to get back in the rehearsal room and start being creative again, so the show required 30 actors and 15 playwrights to stage five brand-new 10-minute plays.

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