A Boy Called Audrey (Pictures from an Exhumation)

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There is no such thing as “Straight Graphs” when it comes to this things but it’s important to not give up and remember that it get worse before it gets better . If all the world were memories, the past would be rooms I could visit and in each room would be my granddad”. It’s not an issue for us and hasn’t really been a big deal, since having a younger brother has “allowed” her to continue to enjoy younger pursuits… In the same way that a lot of children with older siblings will find themselves interested in things considered “too old” for them. Our first day because they were whinging, we were back in our rental sat around eating dinner together about 7pm and Rex asked if he could go to bed!

This entry was posted in theatre, Uncategorized and tagged Audrey, book, celebrities, comedy, Dame Hilda Brackett, Dear Ladies, Dr Evadne Hinge, entertainment, George Logan, Hinge and Brackett, interview, light opera, musical, opera, Patrick Fyffe, stage, The Dowager’s Oyster, theatre. My father said, ‘Well that’s the way it is…’ The policeman continued, ‘Not that we pursue people in such a situation, but your son is actually under age…’ Whatever that means, in those days you were illegal at any age. Her writing, reading and maths are all progressing and she still is very happy to go to school everyday (even if she refuses to do work when she’s there! Betsy, delicate, calculating and sensuously beautiful, wants only to become a 'lady' - and will use the most unladylike means to become one.We could be something like an old retired operatic singer who still thinks she can sing and you could be her pianist’. So many lovely friends were pleased for us in finding our big family home, saying things like “you guys deserve it” and “it’s about time” and I guess we did look back on our “bad luck” and feel relief that all the cancer, death and house selling was behind us and now we were moving forward with a genuine grown-up long-term family home.

Playwright Liam Rudden, a former entertainment editor of the Edinburgh Evening News, added: ‘Very sad to hear that my lovely friend George Logan, one half of Hinge and Brackett, has left us at the age of 78. At the rehearsal, we initially sat in the room with the boys and their chaperone by mistake, but when we realised we were with the 44 other girls down the corridor, I had no worries about leaving six year old typical Rex to his own devices. Toilets- CB has an excellent amount of toilets and I never felt we had to queue (or if we did, not for long).As I got a older I read a bit, I haunted the library, but The Trials of Oscar Wilde and Peter Wildeblood’s Against The Law, an account of a Homosexual in 1950s Britain, were not encouraging of leading a gay lifestyle. When Tony sang “Goodnight, goodnight, sleep well and when you dream, dream of me…” I suddenly remembered how my mum used to sing that to us all the time at bedtime. We repeated this again a couple of days later and got the classic kid response “I know, you already told me”. At the time, Fyffe was performing his cabaret drag act as a glamorous soprano named Perri St Claire. I’m hopeful that the combination of my bravery and their progress will make for fun times all round!

I knew people who had opened their gobs at the wrong time and ended up with a sore face, but that never happened to me. And so we ploughed on, through some wobbles, but constantly reminding her that her friend would be there to cheer her on and we would all go for burger and chips after! After that, it was a bit more waiting around whilst Rex rehearsed tap and then we all went home for a three hour lunch break.Three or four people I knew got the sack from their jobs, others left Glasgow, and there was one attempted suicide.

We were charged with breach of the peace, just for having a wee dance and a drink in someone’s flat. As a family, we have briefly alluded to it here and there over the years, kids can be hilariously disinterested when you attempt to get deep or explain complex things to them, so we don’t think anything ever sunk in. Then, one night, I was sitting at Waterloo Street bus station, waiting for my bus home, when these obvious queens arrived, all camp and outrageous. My sister and my own mother never felt the pain of losing a mother, but I felt the pain of losing them. Rex of course has always known Audrey as his big sister, with no expectations of what that might mean (should she be cleverer, faster, stronger or bossier than him?The characters Hinge and Bracket were elderly women living in a fictional Sussex village, who spent their time reminiscing about their careers in classical music. Like many parents, as half term approached, I was torn between the feeling of relief that we don’t have to rush around to be at school on time and despair that I have to come up with ways to entertain two small children for a week, whilst squeezing in work. Logan and Fyffe subsequently went on tour, taking their show to London theatres such as the Royal Court and the May Fair and the Ambassadors.