"I knew how powerfully good theatre could affect people.  I dragged unwilling friends along, and saw their reaction to good work and to rubbish.  I looked at the different audiences, and wondered about how they might change, how more people—people like my parents—could at least be offered the choice of becoming theatre-goers."

"I had firm convictions of the importance of popular art, and of its power to make life seem richer and better.  I knew in my bones that drama need not be elitist."