The National Theatre’s new Artistic Director, Rufus Norris, talks to Sarah Crompton about his first season, arts cuts, and making theatre for everyone.
Theatres, like schools, take on the personality of the person who runs them. Which is why Rufus Norris, six months into his tenure as artistic director of the National Theatre can’t be surprised that his every move is under scrutiny. How he behaves is the best indicator of what Britain’s most powerful theatrical institution will become.
When he arrived to meet the press last week, in a loose denim shirt and leaning against a precarious table to make his season announcement, it was a marked difference in style from that of his predecessor, Nicholas Hytner, more relaxed and less dynamic. The way he answers questions also breaks with the past; where Hytner was fluently politic, Norris pauses and then answers with devastating directness... Keep reading on The Guardian
Theatres, like schools, take on the personality of the person who runs them. Which is why Rufus Norris, six months into his tenure as artistic director of the National Theatre can’t be surprised that his every move is under scrutiny. How he behaves is the best indicator of what Britain’s most powerful theatrical institution will become.
When he arrived to meet the press last week, in a loose denim shirt and leaning against a precarious table to make his season announcement, it was a marked difference in style from that of his predecessor, Nicholas Hytner, more relaxed and less dynamic. The way he answers questions also breaks with the past; where Hytner was fluently politic, Norris pauses and then answers with devastating directness... Keep reading on The Guardian