| "Richard Eyre asked me back to the National
Theatre for his final production as artistic director - a new play that was scheduled to
transfer to a West End Theatre. That offer conflicted with another more attractive one
from his successor. "I was particularly excited by
Trevor Nunn's plans for a NT company of actors, playing for extended periods with its own
repertoire. Initially I was to be in three productions, one of them a long-awaited new
play by a major British dramatist. This did not materialise. Nor did the permanent
company. Meanwhile I became the only actor to have worked at the National Theatre for all
four of its artistic directors." — Ian McKellen, October 1999 |
Trevor Nunn CBE and Sir Richard Eyre on the terrace of the Royal National Theatre
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