‘Beyond the Fringe first fell upon London like a sweet refreshing rain on 10 May 1961,’ wrote Michael Frayn.
‘That night, the theatre came of age,’ wrote Kenneth Tynan.
Bernard Levin called it ‘brilliant, adult, hard-boiled, accurate, merciless, witty, unexpected, alive, exhilarating, cleansing, right, true and good’.
Levin was OTT but, at 15, I agreed. Fringe paved the way for Private Eye, TW3, the Pythons…
