Trevor Nunn
Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBEis an English theatre, film and television director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed musicals and dramas for the stage, as well as opera. His well-known musicals are Catsand Les Misérables. His dramas include Nicholas Nickleby and Macbeth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 January 1940
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I think a director does have a huge responsibility to draw strands together, and to seek extension and development of his or her own ideas.
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I love to have as much input as possible.
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Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.
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A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
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What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.
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The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
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The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
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Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.
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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.
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I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.
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In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.
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Trying to get work and life in balance is the most difficult thing. I have that knowledge now, but it was a setback at the time.