Ian Case, General Manager of Intrepid Theatre:

I graduated from Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria in 1984. My memories of that graduating year? I carried a beach towel around on my shoulder every day during my senior year in homage to Douglas Adam’s book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which at the time I seemed to think rivaled Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. I remember never getting much flack for doing this, but then I also don’t remember being terribly popular with girls either. I remember sneaking Pink Floyd, Elvis Costello and the Sex Pistols into the Senior Lounge to play on the tape deck there - breaking every rule about what music was acceptable at Hillcrest, which was an American run Baptist Highschool. We were not allowed to dance at our prom as “dancing leads to fornication,” but oddly enough I was encouraged to read Camus, Baudelaire and Voltaire in French class, all authors which I’m pretty sure lead to... well you get the idea.