ABSTRACT
Nicholas Hytner has been the artistic director of Britain’s National Theatre since April of 2003. This interview was conducted in London in March of 2001. Hytner was then a freelance director of theatre, opera, and film and was rehearsing a production of Shakespeare’s
The Winter’s Tale
for the National Theatre, where most recently he has directed Alan Bennett’s
The History Boys
and David Hare’s
Stuff Happens
. His first film was
The Madness of King George
, which he had also directed for the stage and which was nominated for four Academy Awards. Subsequent films include
The Crucible
.
