Buddy Dalton: New End theatre

23rd January 2008

 

INTERVIEW: BUDDY DALTON

The alternative theatre impresario, who set up the New End fringe theatre in an abandoned morgue in 1974, talks to her grand-daughter Polly Pearson about the shows, finances and audiences of the 1970s.

My main aim was to create a really comfortable fringe theatre, and to do exceptional work – which we did.