She called a meeting of her trusted lieutenants: Alison, Rebecca, and Albert, Frederico (who was not Italian but liked the name), Celia and Joseph. Stage manager, assistant stage manager, lighting supremo, wardrobe head, the exploitation manager and front of house manager. They were all young, all keen, all in their first jobs pretty well, all on short contracts, and all would leave to go on to better jobs if they could get them when they had been trained. Stella paid very little but she was a good trainer. She would hold a separate meeting with the teachers and the Administrator of the fledgling Drama School because this involved different problems. The meeting was quiet and serious; they had picked up rumours of financial stringency. Almost all managements ran into problems of this sort these days but they had trusted Stella Pinero and Letty Bingham. No one mentioned the word bankruptcy so they avoided each other’s worried faces. And what could she say to them?
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