“WHENEVER I TELL people I have been working with my friend who’s got Down Syndrome, helping him write and direct a film about his life, they all give me this sort of sad, condescending look,” says Peter Beard. “But when I say it’s a horror/comedy/musical set in Victorian London their faces light up because they weren’t expecting it!
“We were keen to embrace that because it’s so typical of Otto – what you think you’re getting isn’t what you’re getting at all. He’s not asking for