Along with the poet, sculptor and musician Jeff Nuttall - Mark Long, John Darling, Laura Gilbert and Sid Palmer were founder members.
[2] Initially their performances used ‘scripts’ devised by Nuttall – 'there were no characters, setting or narrative as such but rather there were structures with actions, costumes and props and with huge sections where it would say "cast improvise".
In the summer of 1967 they reprised a number of the Better Books shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and when Jim Haynes’s Drury Lane Arts Lab theatre opened in October 1968 it became their regular London venue.
[5] The line-up now was Mark Long, Laura Gilbert and Roland Miller and this ‘streamlined’ grouping went on the road, touring colleges, universities, art schools and jazz clubs.
A short film The Jossers reunited the original members of People Show 75: Cabaret - George Khan, Mark Long, Emil Wolk and Chahine Yavroyan[10] Recent projects have involved collaboration with students from the University of Roehampton and the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.