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Trevor Nunn

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A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.


— Trevor Nunn


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I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.


— Trevor Nunn


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I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.


— Trevor Nunn


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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.


— Trevor Nunn


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I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.


— Trevor Nunn


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I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.


— Trevor Nunn


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I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.


— Trevor Nunn


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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.


— Trevor Nunn


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If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.


— Trevor Nunn


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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.


— Trevor Nunn


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About Trevor Nunn






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They have one child Joshua. His dramas include Nicholas Nickleby and Macbeth. Later London credits include My Fair LadySouth Pacific (at the Royal National Theatre)The Woman In WhiteOthello and Acorn Antiques The Musical (2005)The Royal Hunt of the Sun Rock 'n' Roll and Porgy and Bess in 2006 at the Savoy Theatre (an abridged version with dialogue instead of recitatives unlike Nunn's first production of the opera).

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre film and television director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company the Royal National Theatre and currently the Theatre Royal Haymarket. His dramas include Nicholas Nickleby and Macbeth.

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