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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Trevor Nunn on Happy Days: ‘I can vouch for Beckett’s “funny bones”’ by Trevor Nunn

The great theatre director on why staging the playwright’s 1961 masterpiece is perfectly suited to a post-plague time

SOURCE: The Independent at 02:32AM
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Ian Holm invented Shakespeare acting in the modern age of film | Trevor Nunn by Trevor Nunn

The actor, who has died aged 88, convinced theatre audiences accustomed to the cinema screen that his characters were alive As television news tributes have said, Ian Holm is best known for…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM
Friday, July 7, 2017

The gulf between rich and poor is vast and growing. Where will it end? | Trevor Nunn by Trevor Nunn

A new play I am directing echoes the message of the recent general election: inequality is completely out of handFrom the very beginning, our species behaved hierarchically, just like chimpa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses – the Elizabethan era’s Game of Thrones by Trevor Nunn

Royalty, revolution, adultery ... Trevor Nunn explains what motivated him to revive the great Shakespearean trilogy of The Wars of the Roses: the first box setOn day one of rehearsals, and i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AM