Daniel Osei

I trained as an actor with a small touring company before I started guiding, so I know the theatres here from the wings rather than only the ticket queue. On a call I like to stand at the stage door on Waterside and explain how the Swan Theatre's horseshoe balconies were built inside the old Memorial Theatre tower, a detail that never makes it into the leaflets. I keep the phone steady and let the river traffic pass behind me while I talk, because Stratford is a working town as much as a stage set. Six years in, I still find new angles on buildings I thought I knew.