Preface:I was going to call this book Out of Step, because if one has a strong impulse not to join anything — club, political party, anything — and to try to puzzle things out for oneself, as I try to do, then one is rarely in agreement with the consensus. But some American nicked my title.

One: Tyrone Guthrie suspected that I had prenatal memories. Tyrone Guthrie was, in my opinion, the greatest creative force in drama during my long experience.