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<p>Dash off - with Bridges - to the Mercury Theatre where Iris Lemare conducts a show of my 'Boy'. Mostly very poor I'm afraid - Herod being esp. wobbly. I came out after it, not being able to stand the strain!</p>
<p>Funnily enough so many people liked the work. The boys (St. Alban's Holborn) were very, very good and beautiful.</p>
excerpt from 'Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938' pp. 238 (60 words)