"Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play/Outstanding Director of a Play" 1994 Carousel (musical)/Carousel"Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play/Outstanding Director of a Play" 2006 The History Boys

/ olivierawards = "Laurence Olivier Award/Best Director"2005 The History Boys

/ tonyawards = "Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical/Best Direction of a Musical" 1994 Carousel (musical)/Carousel"Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play/Best Direction of a Play"2006 The History Boys

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"Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner" (born 7 May 1956) is the Director of London's Royal National Theatre/National Theatre (until March 2015) and a theatre, film and opera director whose major successes include Miss Saigon, The History Boys and One Man, Two Guvnors.

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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.

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There is a new climate of religious intolerance in Britain. Whatever the government says, this new bill is pandering to that intolerance.

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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.

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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.

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Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

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

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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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Even in rehearsals, I didn't realize it would be as popular as it proved. After I read it, I said: 'It's brilliant, but it's quite esoteric.' We scheduled 70 or 80 performances.

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