Helen Wybrew Interview: Marketing Assistant Role & Journey's End Visit to France
Title
Helen Wybrew Interview: Marketing Assistant Role & Journey's End Visit to France
Date
15 February 2018
Description
Oral history interview with Helen Wybrew, a long-standing member of the Theatre Royal team, whose experiences at the venue include working in finance, marketing, access and administration.
What's the story?
Born in 1966, Helen Wybrew was brought up in Nottingham and currently resides in Stapleford.
She was first employed at the Theatre Royal in February 1987 as maternity cover for the evening receptionist role.
Thirty-two years later she remains at the venue, however during that time she has worked in a number of departments and so has many stories and memories to recollect.
In this interview Helen talks about her previous role as a Marketing Assistant and a special trip she made to France to visit the World war One battlefields, in conjunction with a forthcoming production to the Theatre Royal of R.C. Sheriff’s classic war play Journey’s End:
Sometimes, because part of my role was if our Press Officer needed assistance with interviews and to do fact-finding trips to see productions, if required. I did one or two of those. I was privileged: we had a production of Journey’s End one year and the producers wanted to take members of the Press, accompanied by representatives of the venues to the battlefields in France. And I was asked if I would be able to go. It was there and back in a day on the Eurostar accompanied by Simon Wilson from the Nottingham Post. But that was quite something, I have to say, to see the cemeteries. And the producers had arranged for a historian to be with us for the day. His speciality was World War I. Yes, I mean it was informative but incredibly moving to stand there and read names and things like that. But yes, that was a privilege.
She was first employed at the Theatre Royal in February 1987 as maternity cover for the evening receptionist role.
Thirty-two years later she remains at the venue, however during that time she has worked in a number of departments and so has many stories and memories to recollect.
In this interview Helen talks about her previous role as a Marketing Assistant and a special trip she made to France to visit the World war One battlefields, in conjunction with a forthcoming production to the Theatre Royal of R.C. Sheriff’s classic war play Journey’s End:
Sometimes, because part of my role was if our Press Officer needed assistance with interviews and to do fact-finding trips to see productions, if required. I did one or two of those. I was privileged: we had a production of Journey’s End one year and the producers wanted to take members of the Press, accompanied by representatives of the venues to the battlefields in France. And I was asked if I would be able to go. It was there and back in a day on the Eurostar accompanied by Simon Wilson from the Nottingham Post. But that was quite something, I have to say, to see the cemeteries. And the producers had arranged for a historian to be with us for the day. His speciality was World War I. Yes, I mean it was informative but incredibly moving to stand there and read names and things like that. But yes, that was a privilege.
Type
Oral interview
Location of item
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Rights
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Contributor
Interviewers: Mena Severn & Phil Smith
Transcriber: David Chilton
Transcriber: David Chilton
