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Looking back, because the show did well, it is easy to think it was all worked out in some way, that because we now know where we ended up we knew then where we were headed.
We didn't.
Initially I was not going to be involved in 70 HILL LANE or Improbable. I hadn't done any theatre for a while so Phelim and Julian (who'd been working together in the reps) had cooked up this idea for a small company doing more personal work.
Julian was going to direct, but something came up which meant he had to work on something else at the same time as working on 70 HILL LANE. At that point Phelim asked if I would "help" on the show. It was no more specific than that.
My time away from theatre had been spent in television and commercial radio and not only was I spectacularly unsuccessful at both, they made me unhappier than I had ever been. When I started working with Improbable it was like coming home. 70 HILL LANE saved my life.
Lee Simpson 2002
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