"I auditioned for all the amateur dramatic groups in Bolton and got two small parts and a job as a prompt.
In Korea after 1940 all dramatic groups had been obliged to belong to the Japanese-organized Dramatic Association of Korea.
After serving in the military in World War I, he went to work for the railroad in Kashira; but his real love was the theatre, and in 1920 he was admitted to Yevgeny Vakhtangov's dramatic group in Moscow.
Wellington has its own amateur dramatic group, formed in the 1960s, called Wellington Arts Association, which holds productions both at Wellington Arts Centre and at the Wellesley Theatre.
In 1970, I directed The Crucible by Arthur Miller for an amateur dramatic group, Nucleus.
Sheila Pinder, who had known Mr Goggins since 1973 from his days in an amateur dramatics group, said: "I remember when he was selected to stand for Parliament, his dad was so excited - I was the first person he called.
Speaking in dramatic terms for the group Forecast the Facts, which had been withering in its criticism of the Obama administration's silence on climate change during the 2012 election, Brad Johnson, the organization's campaign manager, called climate change the moral challenge of a generation -- and he took aim squarely at what he considers the fossil fuel industry's role in the problem.
Among them were a couple who ran an amateur dramatics group in Penzance, who noticed that he was keen on acting, and a music teacher "who was more of a life teacher", instructing him to describe his likes and dislikes and so help "build taste".
It's like saying 'I want to be an actress,' or 'I want to be a war correspondent.' Allow yourself to think big and then, if you only end up being the lead in your local amateur dramatics group, and you don't end up being Nicole Kidman, that doesn't matter.
Her Catholic mother and Protestant father fell in love at an amateur dramatics group and had four children.
