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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nancy Durrant

OPINION - The National Youth Theatre is amazing, but it may be too late to save the future of British drama

This week I had a very nice time attending the annual fundraising gala for the National Youth Theatre, which filled the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm. 

A big glitzy dinner (guinea fowl, if you’re interested) attended by the likes of Zawe Ashton, Susan Wokoma, Denise Gough, Bush Theatre Artistic Director Lynette Linton and the organisation’s royal patron the Duke of Edinburgh, featured both a silent and a very noisy auction, of everything from theatre tickets to a three-night stay in a private villa, led by Sotheby’s Chairman Harry Dalmeny and his tartan trousers.

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