We went to Tom Phillips’s opera, IRMA, which was originally written in 1969, based on A Human Document which he found in a Peckham fleamarket and has dedicated his life to reinterpreting. The opera is totally late 1960s in ethos – freewheeling, experimental, mixing musical, theatrical and poetic genres, with a ballet in the middle, and making use of all Tom’s astonishing versatility and inventive talents in art, music and performance.

This is the garden of the South London art gallery where it was performed:-