A quick curtain call. Then bed: Child actors in adult theatre

The Guardian: It's a blissfully sunny spring Saturday, a perfect afternoon for kids to kick a football in the park or play on the swings. Yet eight-year-old Lennie Harvey is locked indoors, in the warren of dressing rooms backstage at the Apollo theatre in London's West End. Lennie does have games to play, though: Ludo and table tennis. Of the latter, Lennie says: "I play it with some of the actors. There's someone called Tom. I've beat him twice, and I've beat my pretend Mum, and I've beat one of the men who beats up my Dad. And because I beat them all, someone gave me a chocolate bunny."