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I'm Ross (the one in the hat) and this is the blog for Hat Hair Productions, an award-winning theatre and audio production company.  We've been around a while, but we've never had a website before.  Here you'll be able to read about our upcoming work, as well as about our history.  We have some exciting annoucements to make for autumn 2025...

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