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2015 Sibford Rocket the Annual Magazine of Sibford Old Scholars’ Association INSIDE: She’S Behind You! Panto Queen Takes to the Road THE December 2015 Sibford Rocket The annual magazine of Sibford Old Scholars’ Association INSIDE: She’s behind you! Panto queen takes to the road Strolling down memory lane Paperback writers ... Five books, four authors, all connected with Sibford PLUS SOSA launches new charity Old Scholars remembered News from the annual reunion AGM reports SOSAThe Sibford Rocket / 1 elcome to The Sibford Rocket, Wthe 2015 annual magazine of Sibford Old Scholars’ Association (SOSA). We hope that you will enjoy reading about what some of our former pupils are up to SOSC these days and share in their Sibford Old Scholars Charity memories. n last year’s Sibford Rocket your elected SOSA Committee raised the This issue has become Itopic of possibly changing SOSA into a registered charity. something of a literary fest Following much research we found that there were too many obstacles as we feature news about to overcome in order to achieve this. The Committee concluded that SOSA five new books published should be left as it is but that a separate organisation should be created to by friends of the school. The take advantage of Gift Aid. final resting place of one of Sibford Old Scholars Charity (SOSC) has been created and approved Sibford’s most unusual Old by the Charities Commission and HMRC as well as the SOSA AGM. The Scholars is revealed. There Trustees are: Ashley Shirlin (SOSC Chair and SOSA President), Mark Bennett are also reports from the (SOSC and SOSA Treasurer), Nikki Knott (SOSC Fund Raiser and SOSA annual reunion and AGM and committee member) and Amanda Brown (SOSC Bid co-ordinator and SOSA we remember old friends no committee member). longer with us. The aims of the charity are to provide funds to potential pupils, current If you’ve got news that you’d pupils and Old Scholars for educational purposes as well as to the school like to share with other Old itself. Scholars don’t forget to get in Full information on SOSC, including the constitution and how to apply for touch ... you can email me at support, along with the means to donate online, can be found at [email protected] www.sibfordosc.org or write to The Sibford Enclosed in this year’s Sibford Rocket is a separate flyer which contains Rocket, Sibford School, Sibford more information on SOSC and a donation form. As a registered charity Ferris, Banbury OX15 5QL. SOSC can claim Gift Aid from HMRC if a donor is a UK tax payer who In Friendship is paying sufficient tax. This means that for every £1 a person donates we Ali Bromhall can claim a further 25p. Also, please consider putting SOSC into your will, Editor especially if your estate is above the inheritance tax threshold. Cover photograph: Beech Drive Any donation is welcome whether it be £1 or £5,000. in Autumn captured by Michael In the few months that SOSC has existed we have raised £17,000! This Goodwin. has enabled us to help support a current pupil. This pupil would have had to The Sibford Rocket welcomes articles from Old Scholars and other interested parties. leave the school due to a change in the parent’s circumstances had we and Please note, the Editor reserves the right to others been unable to help. edit articles for reason of length or legality. The hills are alive for Libby A young Sibford pupil who won Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, a scholarship to a prestigious James Butler, writing in the stage school has received rave Portsmouth News, said: “Vocally reviews for her performance in Bill there wasn’t a weak link, particularly Kenwright’s The Sound of Music. when it came to the von Trapp Libby Griffiths was cast as children. William Keeler as Friedrich Brigitta in the UK National Tour and Libby Griffiths as Brigitta of The Sound of Music and spent both delivered brief solos; Keeler’s from December 2014 to August demonstrating an astonishing falsetto 2015 touring with the show and Libby Griffiths’ a rich tone beyond visiting venues including Bromley, her few years.” Southampton, Sheffield and Libby was at Sibford from 2011 – Glasgow. 2014 before being offered a place In a review of the show at the at the Redroofs Theatre School. 2 / The Sibford Rocket Lifetime passion for the Bard began at Sibford hakespeare is regarded as one Sibford that I first came Sof the world’s most influential to this theatre. I saw poets and dramatists. Ben Jonson Michael Redgrave in The commented that: ‘He was not of Merchant of Venice, sat an age, but for all time!’ And, as up in the gods holding we sit on the cusp of the 400th Graham Veeck's lovely anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, hot hand; went to the those words still ring true today. mop fair. It was the Shakespeare’s legacy will be first time we had seen marked in numerous ways during civilisation for weeks and the quatercentenary year. However, I was overwhelmed. in April 2015 a Sibford Old Scholar “I wrote a piece about took an early lead with the it for Gladys Burgess, publication of Women of Will about the hush that … following the feminine in descends upon the Shakespeare’s plays. audience just before the to London, still with the magazine, Described as ‘a profound, and curtain goes up. To this day I have and it was only then that the seeds profoundly illuminating, book that not forgotten that feeling … only sown at Sibford began to grow gives us the playwright’s changing instead of the expectation I felt shoots. understanding of the feminine then, now I'm sick to my shoes “The music AJ (Arthur and reveals some of his deepest with fear.” Johnstone) made us listen to; those insights’, Women of Will offers It was during her time at Sibford wretched recorders we'd been an exploration – fierce, funny (1950 ~ 1955) that Tina, or made to play; the mock elections and fearless – of the women of Christina as she was known then, and political dissertations; the art Shakespeare’s plays. took her first stage role starring competitions we'd had to enter; The author, Tina Packer, is in Five Birds in a Cage, a one act all those pacifists and missionaries hailed as one of the play in which she was from China who'd spoken to us foremost experts cast opposite fellow at Sunday Evening Meeting: the on Shakespeare and Old Scholars Jamie beautiful shrubs surrounding theatre arts and is MacDonald-Brown, the school; the fact that ‘no man also an actor, director Edward Goudge and is an island’ repeated over and and master teacher Hilary Naylor. over again … these things meant … not bad for After Sibford, Tina nothing to me then … all I was someone whose first went to sixth form interested in was fellers and food!” opportunity to visit at the local grammar she says. “Now their importance the Royal Shakespeare school where she lost and truth began to emerge. And Theatre in Stratford- sight of any acting with this came the realisation upon-Avon was thanks ambition. “I had two that one must do what one wants to Sibford School! unhappy years,” she to do most and to the best of riting in 1965 says. “I found the one's ability, otherwise your life Wfrom her dressing room atmosphere stifling; missed the is wasted. I arrived back at my overlooking the Avon at the RSC, liberalism of Sibford.” original ambition of the theatre so where she was playing the Princess Tina broke away by going to I left Woman and went to RADA.” of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost Paris where she stayed for nearly It was to prove an excellent and Luciana in The Comedy of two years … latterly writing for move. Tina was awarded the Errors, Tina recalls: “It was from Woman magazine. She returned Ronson Award for the most The Sibford Rocket / 3 ‘Do the best of one’s ability’ ... advice from Tina Packer promising actress of her year and world, looking at the relationship in seven of them (never when after leaving RADA was offered a of mind, body, sacred texts, stand- directing) and taught the whole couple of roles in TV before none up comedy, voice and actor– canon one way or another at over other than Peter Hall offered her audience relationships. 30 colleges in the United States. the parts in the 1965 RSC season. It was in 1978 that she founded She has also received the State of Tina has enjoyed a successful the Shakespeare Company, Massachusetts’s highest honour, and varied career. She appeared Massachusetts with the aim of The Commonwealth Award, alongside Cliff Richard and Dora ‘creating and running a theatre and has been presented with six Bryan in the film Two a Penny; company that merged the honorary degrees (which gives her played Dora to Ian McKellen’s power suits of British actors and great pleasure as she never went David Copperfield for BBC TV American actors: the spoken word to regular college). and appeared in six episodes of Dr and the physical body.’ It was during the mid-90’s, Who as Patrick Troughton’s love The move was a success and that Tina first conceived the interest. today the company attracts more idea for Women of Will, and ut Shakespeare has always than 60,000 patrons annually, offers subsequently received grants from Bremained her first love and one of the most extensive actor the Guggenheim and Bunting in 1974 she moved to the States training programmes by a regional fellowships to fund the project.
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