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Before I met her I had loved performing, but she introduced me to the world of actors and plays. We read Shakespeare, Chekhov and modern writers and she taught me to love drama.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2008\/dec\/06\/my-mentors-john-thomson\" target=\"_blank\">My mentors: John Thomson recalls how acting and music were drummed into him<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; John Thomson recalls how acting and music were drummed into himActing and playing the drums&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-7Et","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10914,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-stroud-gloucestershire\/","url_meta":{"origin":29417,"position":0},"title":"Let&#039;s move to Stroud, Gloucestershire","date":"December 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It's spit and sawdust with a shaggy, Whiggishly radical edgeWhat's going for it? 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