Without youth theatre, I would never have won the Booker prize | Bernardine Evaristo
Acting onstage was how I discovered my creativity, away from class and racial division At the age of 12 I discovered Stage Centre, a former church in Plumstead, south-east London where a co-operative called Greenwich Young People's Theatre put on drama workshops for children. I went with a friend who, horrified at being asked to prance around pretending to be an animal, spent the evening in the lavatory. I plunged in…