Tony Robinson: plays were a posh thing for the elite " until the alternative theatre explosion
In the 1970s companies such as Red Ladder, Monstrous Regiment and Graeae changed the face of theatre. As an exhibition documenting the era opens at Camden Archives, Tony Robinson remembers the radical, can-do spirit of the timeThe great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened: the birth of alternative theatre.I doubt i…