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
feelings musical opera
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
teacher passionate teens
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
song play careers
So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.
beautiful song memories
Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then.
needs language economic
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.
believe imagination projects
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
creativity self-confidence arrogance
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.