My friend Robert Stredder, who has died aged 82, was a street theatre performer and the founder in 1976 of the London-to-Brighton bike ride. The event was conceived initially as a fun annual happening, but is now a major fundraiser for a number of charities.
During the early 1980s Robert co-founded European Theatre of War, a group that toured Europe with a brand of anti-nuclear street theatre, travelling, as they put it, “from Glastonbury to the Milky Way”. He also performed almost up to the end of his life in the Theatre Des Bicyclettes troupe at festivals and events around Britain.
