Live Theatre Company Newcastle and The Group
During the 80s, he also worked as Artistic Director of Live Theatre Company, Newcastle, England where he expanded the repertoire to include Graham Reid's The Death of Humpty Dumpty, a powerful play about how a Belfast family deals with a father becoming a paraplegic as a result of sectarian violence. Later, during the same period, he also founded The Group with actor Tim Woodward. The company presented a series of rarely performed European and American plays in London fringe venues. The work included plays by Luigi Pirandello, Ernst Toller, Fernando Arrabal, Michel De Ghelderode and Howard Fast. John McEnery, Ray Winstone, Catherine Harrison, Mark Drewry and Tim Woodward were among those actors who performed for the company.
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