After the war, bursting with ideas and with a new husband, Gerry Raffles, nine years her junior, whom she had met when he was a teenager, Miss Littlewood once again set out to show ordinary people the magic of theatre.

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Instead of ordinary players becoming excellent through synergistic magic, they were excellent individuals that became ordinary.

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"I like the ability to create that kind of magic out of the ordinary, " he said.

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