The play that changed my life: ‘The Buddy Holly musical showed the arts are for everybody’

Buddy is a bombastic event that everyone’s part of. There’s dancing and clapping, and it feels quite bawdy and lively. It’s an example of the arts being for everybody. A musical like Buddy helps to fund more independent theatre, too, and I like that dialogue between popular art and more experimental work. I think that experience is all quite set in my relationship to being an artist as well, that symbiosis between something esoteric and strange and something very popular.