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The Dream Factory, home of Playbox Theatre.  

I first walked in to this hive of energy and artistic creativity when Iain took a tech course there. He was almost immediately part of tech crew.  I would sit in front of house area , folders spread across one of the cafe tables as I worked on lists of props ,  sewed little bits of costume for the school I volunteered at, while he first did his course, then did tech for various productions.

There's a constant buzz around the place during sessions, energy fizzes, ,spontaneous cartwheels along the corridor, bursts of laughter, going over the choreography of a sword fight. A distinct feeling this is some where young people want to be. Building friendships, learning team work, finding confidence. 

Pre school dinky designers making magical unicorn props. Young adults of the resident ensemble learning new techniques and methods. Circus members tumbling down silks, Young Shakespeare group putting together Elizabethan outfits, tech crew learning about lighting, sound, haze (and hope it doesn't smell like bacon )

I was asked to join this hugely diverse world as a chaperone. Via filing and shredding and a wee bit of interval repairing - I now 'rule Narnia'. I attempt to keep costumes and props in order. I hunt things down, I put them away, I make, i adapt, I set dress (beds in particular. NHS hospital corners do have their uses!) I still file some times, i occasional shred, I make coffee and some times bake and take in cake. 

Something else I do. While all this cancer business is going on, I get a chance to be creative, to work at something that takes most of the leetle grey cells, but lets what's going on bubble away quietly . 

I have no idea what treatment is going to make me feel like, But i do know that I can go to Dream Factory and watch Playbox staff and members do their thing - and feel better. I can hide in Narnia and work out frustrations by tidying out the basic blacks chest. I can sit with a coffee and make time to breathe. Some one will have some good news and we can share a huge hug. Everyone feels better after a hug.

Playbox is my extended family, my safe haven. It;s where the car finds it's way to after appointments at Warwick Hospital. It;s where John and I came to get our heads around the news Cancer number 3 needs all possible treatments thrown at it. 

Check out the web site, follow the facebook page, see for yourself. 

Arts funding is on the back burner. In fact I think it's in the freezer !

Playbox are there for me , part of Heather's Army. I want to say thank you, and be there for them. To be such amazing resource, they need resources. Help me raise some funds so we can keep up the production standards, make next Christmas show the most spectacular yet. Before you ask - No, I don;t know what 'The Biggy' is. But oh boy, I know I'm going to love working on it.