I sat at the feet of Lee and Harold, literally; wrote down everything they said. Harold opened my eyes to the importance of theatre in a society, that it had an obligation, particularly in our time of national emergency, which was to voice the concerns of the people in the audience. Theatre, he said, was not just a pastime between supper and bed. In the twentieth century, it must serve a purpose close to what it had in the pre-Christian Greek world, as a “pop” religion. It had to be an awakening and a reassurance for the masses when they saw their own dilemmas acted out.