AnnuAl RepoRt 2012-13

Annual Report
2012-13
everymantheatre.org.uk
WELCOME
The year 2012/2013 saw the establishment of
a number of artistic policies introduced in the
previous year.
• To produce plays ourselves and then tour nationally
• To increase the amount of self-produced studio theatre
work
• To continue to mount our own pantomimes and a studio
play for smaller children
• To continue relationships with companies we admire and
grow audiences through annual visits
• To develop a regional and local profile through excellent
community and education work
• To develop a series of ‘labs’ which encourage emerging
writers and performers from the region
• To encourage young people to come to the theatre through
special initiatives, Arts Awards, ticket offers and becoming
involved in one of our youth theatres
• To continue a wide range of education and community
work for the county
• To develop a series of dance classes, youth theatres and
community choirs based at the Everyman
We began our policy of producing a play annually although
two fell within this financial year. In 2012 Tennessee William’s
masterpiece, A Glass Menagerie, was a splendid start and
much admired. In 2013 we mounted Cider with Rosie adapted
from Laurie Lee’s memoir of life in Gloucestershire. Both plays
were directed by Paul Milton. The play then toured and the
long term plan is to mount a play annually and tour around
the UK – establishing a national reputation for the Everyman
and developing a new revenue stream.
We also presented some fine productions from the
commercial sector – Relatively Speaking from Bath Theatre
Royal with Felicity Kendal; The Handyman from the Yvonne
Arnaud Theatre, Guildford with Timothy West; The Woman in
Black; Goodnight Mr Tom and An Inspector Calls.
This year’s play for younger children in the Studio Theatre
was The Enormous Turnip – our attempt to give a good
theatre experience for children too young for the pantomime
in the main house. There were a further six plays produced
in-house and presented in the Studio – all newly written and
many by local authors.
The many and varied education and community projects are
detailed in this annual report as is the activities of our Actors
and Writers Labs. These well established groups encourage
and support local professional artists and their work is now
bearing fruit in a variety of Studio productions.
Financially, the theatre suffered from the general economic
mood and ended the year with a deficit entirely related to a
downturn in ticket sales. However, we have made cutbacks
in expenditure and made some painful staff savings which
should mean that the Everyman can weather future squalls
if not storms with a reduced cost base.
An annual report is a good and traditional place to praise
the staff for the efforts and their talents through the year
and thank all our sponsors and supporters with particular
mention of our funders Arts Council England and Cheltenham
Borough Council and of the Board members for their time
and expertise.
Clive Thomas – Chairman
Geoffrey Rowe – Chief Executive
The Everyman now receives regular visits from Propeller
Theatre Company, Out of Joint, Kneehigh Theatre, Northern
Broadsides, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Stephen Joseph
Theatre from Scarborough, BalletBoyz and Richard Alston
Dance Company. We also welcomed English Touring Theatre
and the first production from the Touring Consortium (of
which we are members) The Diary of Anne Frank. Next year
we add Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Hull Truck and
Clywd Theatre Cymru with the plan that they return each year.
All these companies are funded by their arts councils and
produce high standard work.
Front cover: The cast of Cider With Rosie
Right: Julia Hills in The Glass Menagerie
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main house performances
Among the many productions performed at the Everyman
Theatre during the 2012 – 2013 season were 11 companies
who receive funding from Arts Council England to expose
their work to a wider audience throughout England.
These productions are highlighted in black text in the
list below.
The Everyman Theatre also staged its first in-house
production on the main stage in over 20 years, Tennessee
Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, starring Julia Hills. Following
the success of The Glass Menagerie the Everyman staged
a production of Laurie Lee’s quintessential Cotswold tale,
Cider with Rosie which also toured to theatres in Guildford,
Salisbury and Croydon.
April
6: The Burlesque Show
7: Broadway and Beyond
8 - 12: Funny Peculiar
10 - 14: An Inspector Calls
15 - 19: Horrible Histories
17 - 21: Titanic The Musical
(Cotswold Savoyards)
20: To Sheila With Love
23 - 28: The Diary of Anne Frank
(The Touring Consortium Theatre
Company)
25 - 27: The Gruffalo
25: The Good Old Days of Music Hall
and Variety
May
21 - 26: Equus
13 - 16: The Glass Menagerie
(Everyman Theatre Production)
19 - 23: Oliver! (Cheltenham Operatic
and Dramatic Society)
22: We’ll Meet Again
25: The Glenn Miller Orchestra
26: Ultimate Eagles
June
27: The Jackie Generation
28 - 2: Murder on the Nile
28: Relight The Fire:
The Take That Story
5 - 9: The Real Thing
(English Touring Theatre)
1 - 5: Eugene Onegin and
The Barber of Seville
(English Touring Opera)
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29 - 20: The Russian State Ballet and
Opera Company presents Carmen
July
November
21 - 26: Go Back For Murder
9 - 14: Save The Last Dance For Me
30 - 3: Steptoe and Son
(Kneehigh)
February
16 - 21: Doctor in the House
25: Dancing Queen
26: Forever Jackson
28: The Rat Pack is Back
28 - 2: The 39 Steps
4: Last Night of the Proms
5 - 7: The Russian State Ballet and
Opera Company presents La bohéme
and Madam Butterfly
6 and 9: Richard Alston Dance
Company
7: Shakespeare Schools Festival
8: BalletBoyz
September
8: Sing-A-Long-A Grease
10 - 15: Relatively Speaking
10: Jacqui Dankworth
17 - 22: The Handyman
13 - 15: The Russian State Ballet and
Opera Company presents Swan Lake
and Sleeping Beauty
24 - 29: Duet For One
October
16: Piaf: The Songs
2 - 6: A Government Inspector
(Northern Broadsides)
17: The Syd Lawrence Orchestra
9 - 13: Our Country’s Good
(Out of Joint)
14: Richard Street of the Temptations
15 - 20: The Importance of Being
Earnest
22 - 27: Good Grief
9: One Night with Elvis
11 - 16: Blood Brothers
20 - 24: Beauty and the Beast on Ice
March
26 - 2: Surprises
(Stephen Joseph Theatre,
Scarborough)
19 - 24: The Woman in Black
3: Chris Addison
Christmas
4 - 9: Yes, Prime Minister
30 Nov - 13 January: Dick Whittington
(Everyman Theatre Production)
10: Al Murray
January
17: The Johnny Cash Roadshow
18: The Brothers Gibb
19: Elkie Brooks
12 - 16: Goodnight Mister Tom
24: Russell Kane
29: Chris & Pui Roadshow
21 - 30: Cider With Rosie
(Everyman Theatre Production)
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Studio Theatre Performances
Great Expectations in the Studio Theatre was an Everyman
co-production (in collaboration with the Worcester Hive
and the University of Worcester) to celebrate the Charles
Dickens bicentenary. The Everyman’s creative team and
professional actors worked alongside local community
performers and actors-in-training from the University
of Worcester. This was a development of the 2011 Lady
Clancarty project – and was commissioned by The Heritage
Lottery Fund. Great Expectations was staged in the
Everyman Studio Theatre and at The Hive in Worcester.
Great Expectations utilized digital images to maximise
the production’s impact when being performed in nontraditional venues (The Hive is a library) and played to
audiences made up of secondary schools from Worcester
and Gloucestershire. The Everyman and the University of
Worcester hope to sustain the partnership established by
the Great Expectations project and develop future projects
together. Shows highlighted in black text, in the list below,
were produced by The Everyman Theatre.
April
May
June
2: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
3: The Wit and Songs of Noël Coward
28 - 1: Paved with Gold
3 - 7: Old Herbaceous
4: An Audience with Sherlock Holmes
11: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
11 - 14: Travels with Granddad
9 - 12: Mapp and Lucia Ahoy!
18: Stand Up For Poetry and Take
Heart
17 - 19: Plays with Attitude
28 - 30: A Right Royal Knees Up
(Everyman Theatre Production)
20: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
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July
2 - 4: The Girl With the Iron Claws
6: EveryVoice Choirs
February
23 - 27: Dombey and Sons
1 - 2: Snared
November
4: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
7: Celtish
30 - 3: Great Expectations
(Everyman Theatre Production)
10: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
5: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
17 - 18: As You Like It
6: An Evening with Keith Thompson
March
19 - 20: Bard Heads
15 - 17: The Sky is Falling
27 - 2: Made in Gloucestershire
22 - 24: Green Jack
6 - 9: An Evening of Deception
12 - 15: Casting
25: EveryVoice Choirs
14 - 16: The Seven Ages
20: A Night with Tweedy
Christmas
21: Folk On
12 - 24 December: The Enormous
Turnip
(Everyman Theatre Production)
September
22: Songs of John Martyn
26 - 29: An Evening with Dementia
October
19 - 23: Fly Eddie Fly
(Everyman Theatre Production)
18: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
20 - 23: The Boy at the Edge of the
Room
10 - 22 December: Intimate Exchanges
(Everyman Theatre Production)
1: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
January
8: Jazz in the Studio Theatre
23 - 26: Krapp’s Last Tape
25 - 28: The Enormous Turnip
(Everyman Theatre Production)
9: Bones
11 - 12: Now Until the Hour
17 - 20: The Pickwick Papers
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Funded Projects
Some highlights of the diverse projects
delivered by the Everyman’s Education and
Community Department:
SKYLINES
In conjunction with Theatre Centre, Hampstead Theatre
and the Royal Exchange, Manchester, 12 members of the
Everyman Theatre’s Writers’ Lab worked with professional
playwrights to create scripts for young people. The scripts
were performed to an audience of 50 local young people who
were given the opportunity to provide feedback on the work
and children’s theatre in general.
FLY EDDIE FLY!
Commissioned by the Arts Council and written by Writers’ Lab
member Miranda Walker, Fly Eddie Fly! was based on the life
story of local legend Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards. Fly Eddie Fly!
played to capacity audiences during its week-long run in the
Studio Theatre.
ARTS AWARDS
Star Shine
STAR SHINE
In the summer of 2012 the Everyman Theatre ran its first
ever Musical Theatre Summer School for young people ages
12 – 18. Summer School students exceeded the target of
achieving four Bronze Arts Awards and one student achieved
a Silver.
In collaboration with the National Star College for severely
disabled young people, the Everyman produced a play based
on the theme of the Paralympics (to coincide with London
2012). Written by a member of the Everyman’s Writers’ Lab
the play featured disabled student actors and toured local
primary schools, engaging over 700 children.
POSITIVE MOVES
The Everyman team worked with six primary schools in
Gloucestershire for this project partly funded by Cheltenham
Police. Nearly 100 young people took part in the project,
which was based on the theme of “working together”.
The project culminated in a performance at All Saints
Aacademy Secondary School.
Sky is Falling
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The Cole Porter Songbook
Fly Eddie Fly!
UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESERSHIRE
COLLABORATION
Practitioners from the Everyman worked with Performing
Arts and Creative Writing Course students. Topics included
working with community theatre and career advice for
working in the performing arts. Actors performed scripts
written by 20 students and provided feedback and critique.
Green Jack
GREEN JACK and THE SKY IS FALLING
Two commissions from members of the Everyman’s Writers’
Lab and Young Company. During the project collaborations
40 young people were offered the opportunity to work on new
writing with adult writers from the Writers’ Lab.
A Right Royal Knees Up
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education annual report 2012-13
Workshops
Educational Projects
Nursery
Shakespeare Schools Festival
Captain Pugwash - Springboard
Barnwood Park Arts College,
Cheltenham College Junior School,
Severn Vale School, Sir William
Romney’s Academy, All Saints’ Academy,
Gloucester Academy, Malvern College
Primary
Pantomime - Steam Mills
Storytelling - Parton Manor infants
Shakespeare - Nailsworth
Secondary
Poetry Anthology - Cotswold School
Intro to Shakespeare - Cotswold School
Of Mice and Men - Cotswold School
An Inspector Calls - Cotswold School
Woyzeck - Rednock
Audition technique - Millbrook
Physical - Sir Thomas Rich’s
Mask - Cotswold
Dickens Deep Learning Day - Rednock
Directing - Deer Park
Devising - Thomas Rich’s Grammar
Character Development - Rednock
Stanislavski - Cotswold
Brecht - Churchdown
The Woman in Black - Barnwood Park
Devising - Rednock
Devising - Cotswold
Fun Year 9 - Churchdown
Julius Caesar - Cheltenham Ladies
College
Shadows in the Night
Inclusive performance for the
Cheltenham Festival of Performing Arts
in partnership with TwoCan Inclusive
Theatre Company.
National Star College and Millbrook
Academy
All Aboard
Primary Tour in partnership with
PlayHouse Theatre Company
Birmingham.
Toddington Station - Great Western
Railways
Gloucester Road Primary, Rowanfield
Junior School, Dunalley Primary,
Christchurch Primary School,
St Thomas Moore Catholic Primary,
Hesters Way Primary.
International Work
Introduction to Shakespeare SWEDISH PARTY
Introduction to Dickens - SWEDISH
PARTY
Theatre Tour and job roles - Italian
students
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Dickens Children
Secondary project in Partnership with
Daylight Theatre Company
Rednock, Balcarras, Cleeve, Chosen
Hill, Milestones Community School,
Millbrook Academy, Cotswold School,
EveryVoice
8 Community choirs, performances in
the Studio Theatre, Isbourne Holistc
Centre, Wheatsheaf and Feiry Angel
Public Houses
Babes in Arms, Fresh Sounds, Happy
Harmonies, Laughter and Lyrics, Golden
Voices
Dick Whittington Pantomime
Workshops
St Austins, Cheltenham Ladies
College, Rendcomb College Junior,
Prior Park Prep, Glenfall Primary, Swell
Primary, The Elms, Greatfield Park, St
Mark’s Primary, Manorbrook Primary,
Longborough Church of England
Primary, Blackminster Middle, Birdlip
Primary, Churcham Primary
Enormous Turnip Workshops
St John’s Playgroup, Tredworth Infants,
Swindon Village Playgroup
“The best project ever. This has given a
wonderful opportunity to our KS3 students
who do not normally do something like this,
they flourished to be part of something really
amazing. This was so worthwhile.”
Rednock
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Community Arts Projects
The Everyman Education and Community
Department delivers a diverse range of
workshops and projects. Highlights of the
work include...
The Everyman Open Day: Street entertainers welcomed
people of all ages into the theatre for a wide range of free
activities, workshops and performances. There were back
stage tours, acting, voice and writing workshops for adults.
Children’s activities included drama workshops, puppet
shows and face painting. All Our Daughters: The Everyman organised a conference
to raise awareness of the issue of forced marriages. The
evening included speakers from a range of organisations and
powerful testimony from survivors of forced marriages. The
day culminated in a performance in the Everyman’s Studio
Theatre entitled All Our Daughters by The New Vic Theatre.
The Everyman Experience: A diverse group of people from
a range of communities including Pakistani, Thai, Indian,
Japanese, Asian British, Indian and White British, learnt
about theatre and were taken on a back stage tour, and
taught songs from Blood Brothers prior to a performance.
School Council Conference: The Everyman provided
performing arts workshops for an inclusive group of pupils
from Special Educational Needs schools and main stream
schools across the county who were representatives on their
school councils.
Selfish Giant Tour: The Everyman toured this well loved tale
to family audiences at Worcester Arts Workshop, Wychwood
Festival (Cheltenham) and The Picturedrome in Gloucester.
An intimate performance where the actors used puppets,
songs and audience participation to engage the audience
of children aged 3 – 5 years and their families.
Right Royal Knees Up: Actors and musicians toured Care
Homes and Residential Centres with excerpts and songs
in a traditional “Old Time Music Hall” style and then the
participants were invited to attend a studio performance.
Practitioners’ Lab: The Everyman gives free training to
community arts practitioners across Gloucestershire. On one
session they were given the opportunity to share some of
their skills with this network of professionals. They were also
given “Managing Challenging Behaviour” training.
Fun Day for Vulnerable Children: The Everyman provided
a range of creative activities including street dance, circus
skills, samba drumming and face painting at a family fun
day for vulnerable children across Gloucestershire.
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The Garage Project: The Everyman provided a range of
taster workshops for the Homeless and Vulnerably Housed
including samba drumming, creative writing, salsa dance,
musical theatre dance and song writing some of which took
place in a converted “Garage”. When we had built up some
trust with this group of people we were able to do some
longer projects including collectively making a large batik
hanging and rehearsing Christmas songs for a performance
in front of approximately 100 people at the “Kings Table”
project of Trinity Church .
The Rock: The Everyman worked at “The Rock” Youth Project
with young people from referral centres and helped them
attain their Asdan award. Everyman Actors performed a
scene from “Bad Kids” by Michael Greenman and then
the young people began learning skills to put together
their own performance. Everyman practitioners helped
them to collectively create a large collective graffiti wall
which became the backdrop for their performance which
incorporated break dance and circus skills.
U Turn: A partnership project with Hesters Way Police
station where the Everyman helps run after school drama
projects in nine local primary schools on the theme of
“Anti-Social Behaviour”. This project culminated in
a showcase at All Saints Academy where all nine
improvisations were performed in front of parents.
Acting for Everyone: A series of directing workshops for
adults. Directors, including Andy Burden from the Tobacco
Factory in Bristol, introduced various practical techniques
that they use in the rehearsal room.
Upstairs Downstairs: “Inspiring Families” were invited to
attend a Victorian activity day where participants were able
to experience being a servant and making Victorian food.
The families experienced what is what like to be a child from
the aristocracy and tried some Victorian craft activities. The
day culminated in a shadow puppet performance and sharing
the food they had made.
Young Carers Project: Various creative workshops including
a back stage tour, drama and circus skills workshops were
given to the Cheltenham Young Carers groups.
Family Space: Storytelling, drama and craft workshops
all linked to the theme of Dick Wittington for families from
Hesters Way.
YOUTH THEATRE
The Everyman Theatre’s Young Company
celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2012.
From humble beginnings, the youth theatre now has five
separate groups. Two junior groups (ages 7 to 10), two middle
groups (ages 13 to 16) and a senior group (16-18 year olds). Over 140 young people attended youth theatre in 2012/2013.
Sessions were held in Dunalley Primary School, and the
Everyman Theatre. Young Company members performed in
the Everyman’s Studio Theatre in a variety of productions,
notably in two specially-written plays: The Sky Is Falling
by Lewis Hastings and Green Jack by Martin Lytton (both
members of the Everyman’s Writers Lab).
The Sky Is Falling
Green Jack
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PANTOMIME AND STUDIO WORKSHOPS
The Everyman continued its tradition of
celebrating the season with our pantomime
in the main house and two alternative
productions in the Studio Theatre.
The Everyman’s production of Dick Whittington featured
Gloucestershire’s favourite clown, Tweedy, from Giffords
Circus and once again played to an audience of nearly 40,000
ecstatic parents and children, and teachers and students
from hundreds of schools throughout Gloucestershire and
beyond.
The alternative Christmas productions in the Studio Theatre
were The Enormous Turnip, perfect for kids aged 3 – 7 and
Intimate Exchanges, an adult alternative to our pantomime.
Prior to the productions, the Everyman Theatre’s Education
and Community Department delivered workshops in local
schools introducing students to the history of pantomime
and teaching them about the work that goes in to putting on
a great show.
Dick Whittington Workshops Took Place At:
St Austins, Cheltenham Ladies College, Rendcomb College
Junior, Prior Park Prep, Glenfall Primary, Swell Primary, The
Elms, Greatfield Park, St Mark’s Primary, Manorbrook Primary,
Longborough Church of England Primary, Blackminster
Middle, Birdlip Primary, Churcham Primary
Enormous Turnip Workshops Took Place At:
St John’s Playgroup, Tredworth Infants, Swindon Village
Playgroup
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With grateful thanks to our supporters and sponsors
established 1929
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Financial information
everyman board & staff
(as at 31.3.13)
Board of Directors
Income
Box Office
£2,726,459.00
Public Funding
£524,171.00
Catering
£387,315.00
Fundraising and Sundry
£213,906.00
Total
£3,851,851.00
Expenditure
Productions and Projects
Catering Costs
Overheads incl. Salaries
Total Expenditure
Result
£2,206,097.00
£301,296.00
£1,457,021.00
£3,964,414.00
-£112,563.00
Theatre Information 2012-2013
Number of Users
ReachOut Projects
153,747
42,000
Ticketed Events
Total No. of Ticketed Events
546
% of tickets at full price
43
% of tickets at concessions
57
Where the Audience Comes From
Gloucestershire
75%
Outside of Gloucestershire
25%
Average Attendance
Main Auditorium
64%
Studio Theatre
81%
Chairman Clive Thomas
Directors Zareen Ahmed, Jason Blackburn, Jane Cantwell, Mike Dey,
Robin Herford, Carol Hobbs, Chun F Kong, Roger Nicholls, Dudley Russell,
Sam Shrouder, Guy Woodcock, John Workman
Staff
Chief Executive Geoffrey Rowe
Creative Director Paul Milton
Head of Community Arts Camille Cowe
Head of Education Louise Partridge
Studio Production Manager Corin Hayes
Creative Projects Co-ordinator Caro Day
Finance Manager Penny Harrison
Senior Finance Assistant Claire Bateman
Finance Assistants Natasha Krstic-Howe, Nataliya Kudelina
Theatre Secretary Millie Krstic-Howe
Development Officer* Fiona Spiers
Technical and Production Manager Graham Williams
Technicial Stage Manager Kieran Barker
Stage Technician Phil Langham
Chief Electrician Michael E Hall
Deputy Electricians Steve Anderson, Alex Stamp
Technicians* Dorian Claridge, Justin Claridge, Louise Curwen, Matt Earl,
Karim Hadoum, Ben O’Grady, Xanthe Parker, Pete Sterry
Theatre Services Engineer Roger Hendry
Maintenance Technician* John Whitehead
Head of Sales and Marketing David Allen
Press and Marketing Officers Francesca Goddard, Jackie McKenzie
Group and Corporate Sales Co-ordinator Sally-ann Rhodes
Box Office Manager Hilary Coleman
Deputy Box Office Manager Kelly Priest
Senior Box Office Assistant Gail Jones
Box Office Assistants* Glenn Andrews, Rose Harrison, Julie Holder,
Natasha Krstic-Howe, Steve Parry, Wendy Wilcoxon
Theatre Manager Matt Rogers
Deputy Theatre Manager* Jenny Wicks
Senior Stage Door Reception Alison Greening
Stage Door Receptionists* Becky Andrews, Alison Balster, Alison Mansfield,
Angela Wilcock
Duty Managers* Nick Phillips, Judy Williams
Housekeepers Debbie Betteridge, Debbie Hawkins, Isabel Major, Ray Paget,
Joan Pitt, Carol Ralph, Barbara Sims
Ushers* Andy Adams, Yvonne Beach, Debbie Blyth, Hannah Churchill, Cathy
Dean, Deb Dovinson, Sue Garcia, Joe Hackett, Nerys Joyce, Pippa Kay, Maia
Krstic-Howe, Jenny McGrath, Kayleigh Moore, Ginnie Paget, Martin Perks, Sally
Rogers, Sarah Spencer, Jacob Tait-Bailey, Frances Thomas, Karen Townsend,
Liam Wheeler, Marisa Wood
Everyman Catering Company
Catering Manager Caroline Taylor
Assistant Catering Manager Matt Nolan
Chef Joanna Giles
Duty Manager Laura Bradley
Café Bar Supervisor (daytime) Laura Hunt
Saturday Supervisor* Rebecca Ayling
* Part-time staff
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