As she takes the helm at Oxford Playhouse, Louise Chantal reflects on those who have inspired her career.
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As a young history teacher at my secondary school, Hilary Adams was always as irrepressibly enthusiastic as her spaniel Merryman. Every year she directed the Junior Dramatic Society in wildly fanciful productions, beautifully lit and designed by a backstage team she christened F.E.A.S.I.B.L.E. – Fellowship of Enthusiastic and Able, Sound-Incorporated, Backstage and Lighting Experts. I was in charge of lights, and spent years swinging precariously from ladders (Health and Safety in the 1980s wasn’t what it is today!). Ms Adams was an inspirational producer, and is entirely responsible for my subsequent devotion to theatre. Everything since has always been FEASIBLE.
