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This Question and Answer session gave us a fascinating insight into the experiences that shaped Chris’s development from Cambridge Footlights Review and concurrently working as a West End theatre usher, (a job he described as a masterclass for an aspiring actor or director).  It was evident that Chris’s wealth of experience in repertory theatre and subsequent career as a director  had given him a conviction that creating a new show is fundamentally a team effort.  He believed that this was particularly true of comedy and his current project  as the director of  this season’s much lauded Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won.

The audience were quick to pick up on Chris’s emphasis on the collaborative nature of comedy and what followed was an absorbing description of Chris’s style of ‘benign dictatorship’ and the creative tension that exists between giving actors room to develop their roles and the need…