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A busy weekend with halls

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 So I have spent the weekend doing Utopia stuff.  Yesterday I visited two village halls that we are hopefully going to use next year for our theatre groups and socials. Also planning on working on doing a 2-day theatre workshop in the summer at one of the halls after our performances. The first hall I visited was Taddington village hall. I love how old school it is. Small stage but I think we could perform on it. Fantastic games room and a really good outdoor area for people to chill in if things got too much. I love the personality that are in these village halls. And the passion that people have for them. We have used several holes in the past and they are always ran by really passionate people who love their villages and what they do. I especially like the well-dressing pictures on the walls of this hall (Which I'm gutted I didn't get a picture of) The second hall I visited was Youlgreave village hall. The whole hall is like TARDIS. It looks really small on the outside but ...
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Our story so far.

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 So we left our former youth theatre group in October. It was a big decision but the right one. The plan wasn't too start our own group. We just couldn't stay with the old group because of safeguarding issues the committee we're not taking seriously. But we had many youngsters who wanted to follow us. So it seemed the right thing to do was start our own group. And that's where Utopia Unlimited was born.  We decided we better start off small so we thought we would do regular monthly Theatre groups and socials where we would build up to putting on a show in the Buxton fringe. Fortunately, we had a fair few people follow us from the other theatre group. But we thought we would aim this one towards neurodiversity and inclusivity. We thought we would put on Trail by Jury as our first show. It's only 45 minutes long and it introduces Gilbert and Sullivan quite nicely. I have to admit I have only seen trial twice and have never been in it so it is a new show for me.  We ha...
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