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Does the Theatre Have Any Direct Effect on How We Live?
Hannie Rayson

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“As a child I worried about the poor. I thought about them almost as much as I thought about how much I wanted to own a horse. And that was a lot. My mother said that the measure of poverty was when children came to school without shoes. She said I was to keep my eyes open for bare feet in the playground, but in the meantime I should stop worrying. Because as well as being a classless society …”