Martin’s ground-breaking Scrap and Scratch Opera was devised in the 1980s to mount large-scale community events. Performances were created in six hours from scratch with costumes and props made from scrap materials for up to 350 children and professionals – including celebrities such as Stewart Copeland, Dame Evelyn Glennie, and the cast of Les Miserables.
More recently, with friends and colleagues he devised a community version of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, reading Voice One, and has researched an illustrated lecture based on his artist father’s life and war diary.