My introduction to community based theatre came in Glastonbury, in the Victorian Assembly Rooms, where the local alternative population had spawned Ariadne Productions, who staged lavish, large-scale mystery plays harnessing the skills and talents of a great many people in the local alternative community. Kathy Jones, the writer and producer, met, and then promptly dreamt about, me, and proceeded to write a Tibetan play based on those dreams, in which I was to act the central character - one quite true to myself in a strangely eerie way....
- I played Lepchani, in Kathy Jones' "Green Tara", directed by Kathy Jones, in the Assembly Rooms, in the round, in December 1988.
- In April 1989, (and again at the Glastonbury Festival in June 1989,) I played Arawn, Holly King of the Underworld, and Havgan, the Oak King of Summer, in Kathy Jone's adaptation of the Celtic manuscript, the Mabinogion - "The Shining Ones", in the Assembly Rooms, in the round.
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