The SJT, and above all Alan, have had an enormous influence on my life.
It was the end of what had been a pretty good summer, but little did we know we were in store for the amazing summer of ’76, when pallid holidaymakers became attractively tanned, and even the local ladies left their cardies at home of an evening little did I know either that I would stay with the company for nearly five years, perform in world premieres of six of Alan’s glorious plays, tour the UK and Northern Europe (where he was compared to Beckett and Arrabal), get my teeth into Chekhov, Miller, Anouilh, Pinter would direct ( The Guv’nor), and be encouraged to write. I joined the company on the Sunday before August Bank Holiday 1975. Actor Alison Skilbeck was a regular at the SJT in the 1970s and ‘80s, and discovered how the company became part of the fabric of the town…
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