“In my day, it was just accepted that theatre was part of school life. Every summer term, each class would participate in the drama competition, putting on a play from scratch. By the time I’d left St Anne’s, I had been involved in devising, writing, directing, designing, acting in and stage-managing seven plays, with almost no adult input. Today this would be impossible. “There are too many exams, not just in the summer but throughout the year. There just wouldn’t be the time.”