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Issue 199: Apprenticeships , Issue 199: Focus on Photography

  • Apprenticeships, Focus on Photography

    27 Jul 2009

    Gregory Nash reveals the people who have inspired him most.

    Ian Brown
    In TAG Theatre Company’s rehearsal room in 1988 I was movement director in charge, as Ian and his actors wrestled with the escape down the Thames in ‘Great Expectations’. Close to opening night and a nervous breakdown, I was dispatched. I returned next day to find the problem eloquently resolved with a sailcloth, a bowl of water and the creaky lid of a wicker basket. Less is more indeed. When Ian went on to run the Traverse, he was sometimes to be found sweeping the... more

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