OFFSTAGE IS DEDICATED TO
PIP SIMMONS: DEC 1943-24 JAN 2024

The Pip Simmons Theatre Group was formed in 1968. Pip Simmons the founder, served both as writer and director and was one of several highly original and energetic theatre directors unsupported in Britain by the Arts Council or the cultural establishment.

“If Pip Simmons was not in love with theatre and beauty, If his inventive genius didn’t constantly play on ambiguity, If he didn‘t simultaneously show the ridiculous and grotesque in the manner of an Elizabethan playwright. . . He walks a tightrope, places himself in danger, but he has at his disposal quite extraordinary actors who have absolute control and can do anything. They never border on pathos; their elegance allows them to perform vulgarity without the audience having to follow suit.

An enthralling show”

Le Monde ‘The Dream of a Ridiculous Man’ 1976