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Education My Schooldays Phyllida Lloyd Cultivated for the stage
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What school did you go to?
I was sent to a very eccentric boarding school called Lawnside in
Great Malvern at the age of 11. It was less a temple to academia than
a cultivation patch for wives of important men. We had prizes for
things such as "good manners in difficult circumstances", which I
always thought meant not crying as the Titanic was going down under
you. It was steeped in music, drama and our own peculiar pagan
traditions. We hurtled over lawns in Greek dancing tunics to
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