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Bard star John is teachers' pet Former Camp Hill pupil to play Brutus in RSC's Julius Caesar Theatre

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From: Birmingham Mail
Date: 20060519
Author:Diane Parkes

DON'T be surprised if there are more than your normal number of teachers in the audience for current Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar.

They are not working but will have come to see a former pupil John Light.

The former King Edward VI Camp Hill student has kept in touch with a handful of his teachers who still pop over to Stratford-upon-Avon to see his latest performance. And this summer they can see him playing Brutus in Julius Caesar and Caliban in The Tempest.

"Lots of my teachers were really supportive and came to see stuff that I was in," he says. "To begin with it ...

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