Sarah Hamilton Baker is as good an advert to get involved with the REP Foundry as one might imagine. Her onstage persona (if it is indeed a persona) feels at once easy and improvisational, yet calibrated perfectly for this kind of show. She is effusive but never shambolic. . . She compels the audience to consider their own relationship to sex and pornography, educating them a little in the process, sharing her own experience, and all the while making them hoot, holler and occasionally snigger . . .

September 1993, and the animated short film and its accompanying theme tune Walking In The Air had already secured their places as Christmas classics in the hearts of the nation. The REP’s then Artistic Director, Bill Alexander approached Howard Blake, to ask how he’d feel about working with The REP to create a full length stage version of The Snowman. Howard convinced Bill that the way forward for The Snowman should be a full length dance piece . . .