Post by youngoffender on Jun 16, 2017 14:06:01 GMT
I am thoroughly enjoying Hytner's memoir of his time running the NT - full of great stories.
He can be waspish, but at other times is just a bit too discreet. In the Introduction he mentions a conversation (a couple of years into his tenure) with Executive Director Nick Starr. "Nick has been to see a show at a theatre for which neither of us has much time, because nothing that reaches its stage seems to bear any relation to the world as it actually is. 'Entirely self-referential,' he says, 'ridiculous'. We spend ten satisfying minutes slagging off stuff we don't like."
What could that theatre have been, I wonder, in the early 2000s? My first thought was the Royal Court, but he appears to rate it elsewhere in the book. Any ideas?