Life's a stage for entertaining couple

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KIRSTY Campbell has entertainment in her blood.

It has clearly been inherited from her mother Liz Samuel who took an interest in the stage at the age of 17 when she first appeared in a Greenock High School show.

Liz later became a member of Largs Operatic Society and then joined Glasgow"s Apollo Players.

Kirsty, a teacher brought up in Gourock, produces and appears in shows.

Her BT employee husband Graham, who is originally from Skelmorlie, also treads the boards.

The couple, who married in 2007, are members of Greenock Light Opera Club and also of Plamf Productions. The latter group has more than one entry in the this month"s one-act play competition in the Arts Guild and this means Kirsty and Graham will be competing against each other.

Last year, Kirsty played the character Julie Jordan in the Light Opera Club"s "Carousel" - 30 years after her mother Liz took the role in the same production by the Apollo Players. What"s more, Liz was in the club"s cast alongside Kirsty.

Two other members of the Samuel family are in the amateur entertainment business. Kirsty"s father Ian has been involved backstage in shows at Port Glasgow High School where he is the principal PE teacher. Her brother Andrew works backstage at the Arts Guild.

Last year, the Samuel family gathered to celebrate the diamond wedding of Kirsty"s grandparents Myra and John Samuel, who live in Roxburgh Way, Greenock.

Myra and John, Kirsty and Graham share the distiction of having been married on a Fair Saturday. John played for Morton from 1947 until 1951 when he joined Third Lanark.

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This article appeared in Greenock Telegraph 17 Feb 09

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