Sierz credits a turning-point for the theatre when Daldry remodelled his programming policy in 1994 from focusing on American work and "gay physical theatre to text-based drama he decided to stage a large number of first-time dramatists". Daldry said that "From autumn 1994, the Court doubled its amount of new productions in the Theatre Upstairs and focussed on young writers". Daldry’s first season of work by new writers in 1994-95 included a number of in-yer-face plays, such as "Some Voices" by Joe Penhall, "Peaches" by Nick Grosso and "Ashes and Sand" by Judy Upton.