The Guildhall School Magazine Autumn/ Winter 2016 4 Behind the Scenes 20 Mind the Gap Curious festival Making the arts accessible 6 Your latest School news and stories PLAY12 Face to Face Students say farewell to Barry Ife 26 The Interview Emma Rice 30 Then & Now Guy Chambers 32 Class Notes 34 Recent Releases 36 In Memoriam 18 Guildhall to the World 38 A Day in the Life Playtime in France Peter Batai Editorial Group Welcome to the latest edition of PLAY Deputy Head of Development (Alumni & Supporter Relations) Before the next edition of this magazine comes out the Guildhall Rachel Dyson School will have a new principal, Lynne Williams. Lynne joins Head of External Affairs Jo Hutchinson us from Australia’s highly prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art and we look forward to working with her. Our Head of Development Duncan Barker current principal, Professor Barry Ife, has been both a fierce Marketing & champion and a dedicated supporter of the School for the past Communications Officer twelve years. Barry reflects on some of the achievements and Rosanna Chianta challenges of that period in a touching interview with students Copywriter in Face to Face. Nicola Balkind Art Direction & Design In August, I took a group of alumni from the Class of 1982 on Pentagram Jessie Earle a tour of the School. While the Silk Street building has been refurbished many times over the years, it is essentially the same, Forthcoming events Contact but Milton Court showed them a whole new side to Guildhall. Email As we walked around they told stories of their time here and I
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