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've never thought it strange to do highly contrasting things. I always thought it was all part and parcel of theatrical expression. At school, I loved doing revues, I was in a rock 'n' roll group and I staged a couple of musical events, then, when I left, I formed a little company to do Hamlet.
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Victoria is a clever satirist, ... She understands the awfulness that's at the heart of a lot of modern culture.
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I think part of Kevin's notion of being involved with the Old Vic was because he wants to blood himself with Shakespeare,
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So I grew up in an area where it wasn't expected that I would have a kind of scholastic career, or go to grammar school, or anything like that.
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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.
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You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.
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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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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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I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.
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If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
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If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
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I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.
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I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.