am-dram

British  

abbreviation

1. informal  amateur dramatics

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Example Sentences

The characters in the Dewsbury am-dram group have their bread buttered on various sides, but they agree Lady Boothroyd is, as Peake believes too, a symbol of democratic respectability and stability compared with today's politicians.

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Peake plays Meredith Ankle, matriarch of the am-dram group and owner of Ankle Carpets.

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Yet he had less time for the drama's "heightened soapiness" and suggested its costumes "look like relics from an am-dram dressing-up box".

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There are warnings that with many am-dram groups inactive, audiences' and members' interest could decline and important seedbeds for stage talent could fade away.

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"The saddest thing is that people are missing the communal feel of the am-dram experience - it's a great buzz and we're getting a bit of that feeling from our play."

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