Prince Edward Treads the Boards

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THE Earl of Wessex visited a Worcestershire theatre yesterday to celebrate its recent extensive refurbishment and watched performances from its varied productions.

Prince Edward was entertained with excerpts from this year's professional Swan Theatre pantomime Jack & The Beanstalk, the Swan Theatre's in-education show Worcester – City of Liberty, and Vesta, the one-woman sell-out biopic of Vesta Tilley, Worcester's star of the music halls.

Prince Edward, who was a production assistant at Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Theatre Company in the 1980s, clearly enjoyeed being at the theatre.

He also enjoyed performances from the talented youngsters of Academy Dance and met representatives from the Swan Youth Theatre, Friends of the Swan, Worcester Society of Artists and Worcester Camera Club. Chief executive of Worcester Live, Chris Jaeger, said: "It went fantastically.

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Cindy