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I always used to believe that I wasn't very creative. The reason for this is that I always thought someone creative was like an artist, author, musician or playwright. I never realised that creativity could be almost anything and be found anywhere. Creativity is actually anything you are inspired to do. This can be found anywhere and at any time and it is really up to you to make or do what you want to do. It made me realise that I am far more creative than I realised. As many people know I am in to cosplay. I am not great at sewing or anything like that so I either put together cosplays from items of clothing I own or can buy or from costumes made by others. This is not cheating in my eyes as I am still creating a character and I am still putting a character together. My preference is for human characters that often wear clothes that anyone would wear. There is my Misa or L for example. I have ordered a costume for Grell and the good thing was that I could use part of it for m...

Rocky Horror Review

Now, I am crap at remembering names so this could be interesting. Basically, from what I remember (and double checked online just now), Janet was played by Diana Vickers who was once on X Factor, Ben Freeman was Brad and he used to be on Emmerdale (but also does musical theatre like Wicked), Frank was played by a guy who was once on The Voice and he’s called Liam Tamne and the comedian Steve Punt (radio 4, works with Hugh Dennis) was the narrator. Oh yes, and Paul Cattermole from S Club 7 was Eddie/Dr Scott. The rest of the cast were theatre actors and put in amazing performances. I saw the show at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. The staging was certainly the best I’ve seen as I have seen this show live three times. It worked better for its simplicity. Parts of the set rotate within a frame to present the illusion of different rooms within the castle. Keeping the cast numbers low also helped. There were only four phantoms and this meant they added to the show and the sta...