Colm O'Regan: 'Left shark' has nothing on my little ones

Children's theatre is the purest form of artistic expression, and I'm here for it
Colm is a drama school Dad and he's not afraid to say (sing?) it.

Colm is a drama school Dad and he's not afraid to say (sing?) it.

I honestly didn’t expect to enjoy it that much. I had thought I was going to watch my own children perform, to assume they didn’t get bigger roles because of others’ pettiness and jealousy, and then maybe read an improving book while the other people’s children were on.

But right from the first moment we sat in that theatre with the logo of the little local stage school up on the curtain, I was hooked. Knowing somewhere in the back were Our Two, all dressed in their little outfits, waiting nervously to go on (As it turned out they weren’t a bit nervous. They were actually watching cartoons).

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