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  Grosvenor Park Open AirTheatre was holding their version of Little Women tonight The night the heatwave properly broke and the heavens opened. But it was fun My sister and I got incredibly wet The open air theatre produces bawdy, musical and comic versions of classic novels and reworked Little Women into  a 1914 Edwardian Chester drama with the March sisters , working in ammunition factories, nursing soldiers in hospital and with Laurie going off to war in the trenches. It worked rather well, which is surprising.  The actors were as soaked as the audience which endeared us, especially to the doomed Beth , who slipped and fell flat on her face on stage just before her death. A death which was incredibly moving , given the lightness of the production. I’ve always remembered her matter of fact speech to sister Jo “ I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you. I never made any plans about what I'd do when I gr...

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