As Norris announces his first NT season as director,he talks approximately arts cuts, diversity, or life after War Horse and enticing an audience into a ‘broad church’Theatres,like schools, take on the personality of the person who runs them. Which is why Rufus Norris, and six months into his tenure as artistic director of the National Theatre can’t be surprised that his every sail 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 originate his season announcement, it was a marked difference in style from that of his predecessor, or 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. “I bear a growing reputation of being a bit trigger-joyful on the candid front, and ” he says when we meet the next day. But I would much sooner bear that. I try to be as open and honest in any given environment as I can be.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com