Marjorie Lynette Sigley (22 December 1928 - 13 August 1997), also known as Sigi, was a British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer. She was instrumental in establishing, developing and promoting forms of youth theatre and television in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Marjorie Sigley was born on December 22 1928, known to everyone as "Sigi", she took passionate pleasur...
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Marjorie Lynette Sigley (22 December 1928 - 13 August 1997), also known as Sigi, was a British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producer. She was instrumental in establishing, developing and promoting forms of youth theatre and television in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Marjorie Sigley was born on December 22 1928, known to everyone as "Sigi", she took passionate pleasure in the arts and would travel huge, impractical distances to see a play, a ballet or an opera. But she also believed in art as an educational force, and her greatest achievement lay in pioneering many of the attitudes towards children's drama that we now take for granted. Sigley not only introduced thousands of children to what she called "the wonder of theatre", she also involved them directly in the making of it.
Sigley came from "a solid, very traditional" working-class family in Buxton, Derbyshire, where her father worked for ICI and her...
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