The good that comes out of the bad times

[TyphooToffee]

After reading an old Independent article via a link posted by a friend on Facebook I decided to look for a particular one myself. If you read it and want to know what good came out of it, bear in mind I had my 40th birthday during rehearsals and had not long decided that my stormy on/off marriage to my first wife was over.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/prisoners-find-that-all-their-worlds-a-stage-a-production-of-the-tempest-is-changing-the-lives-of-some-inmates-at-maidstone-jail-david-lister-watched-them-in-rehearsal-1479234.html?cmp=ilc-n

('Trinculo' was me)

 

[TyphooToffee]

...and whilst posting a reply on the fixture list thread I remembered the time when I was helping shred old records a place that had been a young offenders' institution, when the John Morgan mentioned in this other article (the one the Facebook friend posted) told me that amongst those records was those of a then high profile footballer (who went on to be a manager - I'll say no more than that)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jail-where-inmates-pay-rent-and-carry-their-own-keys-1442565.html