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This evening I went to see The Pirates of Penzance, put on by the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama. I went because Lisa's older daughter Margot is in it, and it was a treat. The entire show was put on by thirteen teen-age girls and one boy, who played Frederic; and a woman at a piano. The staging and the direction were excellent; so was the imagination put into it. Margot played a pirate and a maiden and a policeman, and she got to sing my favourite song from Penzance: "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One".

The best performance came from Nadine Rizk, who played the Pirate King. I adored her. She compared well with any professional I've seen in the role, besides being utterly cute. Naomi Peltz, who played Ruth, was also very good. Lisa said she had a scholarship to go to a drama school in New York, and no wonder. She played a 47-year-old in such a way that Lynne asked Lisa how old she actually was. Lisa said she was in grade eleven.

Sadly, the lone boy, who played Frederic, wasn't very impressive. So it goes.

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