Education
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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Christine McKenna
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McKenna was a drama student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow in the early 1970s. During her summer holidays she learned stage management and theatrical wardrobe at the Byre Theatre. Upon graduating, she appeared in productions for the National Theatre and in the West End of London, including Stephen Sondheim´s A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, A Midsummer Night"s Dream, and Great Expectations, and played "Polly" in The Boy Friend with Glynis Johns, "Sally Bowles" in Cabaret, and "Moll" in Moll Flanders.
McKenna relates in her autobiography Why Didn"t They Tell The Horses? that when she auditioned for the part of "Christina" in Flambards, her most notable role, she had never ridden a horse before.
McKenna then had to learn to ride sidesaddle very quickly.
Membership
McKenna was also a member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre company in Edinburgh, and with that company appeared in Kidnapped and The Prime of Mission Jean Brodie and played the "Principal Girl" in several traditional pantomimes.
Personality
She was so determined to gain the part that she described the horse-obsessed childhood of a friend as her own and got the part.
