“Is the world really so mad, grim and dark as the collective consciousness of the 52nd Sunday Times National Student Drama Festival appears to portray it? Since it was launched in 1956 by the Sunday Times drama critic Harold Hobson, this festival has been an annual opportunity to measure the morale of a generation who in a short time will be acting on our stages, working in our television studios, writing in our newspapers, teaching our children. Their tastes and preoccupations are going to change our world.”