The play that changed my life: how a pratfall in a student fringe farce made James Graham a playwright
Performing in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist during A-levels was a lesson in low-art laughs and political anger that unites an audience It was 1999. I was doing A-levels in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, the former mining community I depict in my TV series Sherwood. My comprehensive school was one of the biggest in the country, one of a very small number with a working theatre. I wouldn't be doing what I g…