Footsbarn Theatre is a touring theatre company renowned for its adaptations of classics such as Shakespeare and Molière. Footsbarn started life in London, in the United Kingdom in 1970) at the Drama Studio. It was an abstract idea that materialised when Oliver Foot and Andrew Slimon met at the Drama Studio in 1968. They worked on a production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame. It began as a student production supervised by Peter Layton at the Putney Institute. Endgame was reprised in October 1970. The first Foot's Barn production was at the St Mary Abbot Theatre in Kensington. The Foot family had no connection with the Cornish barn that the company moved to in 1971. The name Foot was first referred to in the London Evening Standard when Oliver announced his marriage to Nancy Bruce. During the in