Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre - I had been a child actor - but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life - theatre was still a posh thing, a middle-class thing, something for an elite.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre movement.

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