They have been working on it for the past nine months and I have been absolutely thrilled by the stuff they have been producing together. -Nicholas Hytner

 

They have been working on it for the past nine months and I have been absolutely thrilled by the stuff they have been producing together.


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I think there would have been a time when the basic history would have been common knowledge. You could have been certain that when the king comes on at the beginning -- 'So shaken as we are, so wan with care' -- they know he's wan with care because the country's been in a state of perpetual civil war since he deposed the previous king, Richard II.

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I had a guess what it might be about, but this took me completely by surprise. And he delivers a play, as he puts it, before he truly knows what it's about. He wants a conversation about what it is that appears to be working, and where it is he appears to be going. Until he's got to that point, nobody knows about it.

Nicholas Hytner

They are all kind of the same letter, all handwritten or typed. They all assume that the play is about Paul's being homosexual and misogynist; they assume it's going to be a prurient hatchet job.

Nicholas Hytner

It's almost as if he's challenging you and himself to go further with the stuff that may be the most painful to write. The relationship between Irwin and [student] Dakin was there, but it is written with much greater daring.

Nicholas Hytner

That would be doing to our audience and our repertoire what I'm moaning about.

Nicholas Hytner