Trevor Nunn

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Sir Trevor Nunn , CBE , (born January 14, 1940 in Ipswich , England ) is a British theater and film director .

He was artistic director of both the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the Royal National Theater . In both positions he succeeded Sir Peter Hall . In 2002 he was ennobled by the Queen to Sir.

Life

Trevor Nunn was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. His father was a carpenter. He attended Northgate Grammar School in Ipswich and studied at Downing College , Cambridge . He was able to study at Cambridge through a scholarship. During his studies he joined the “Marlowe Society” - a renowned theater club at the university - and began his stage career in 1960 in a supporting role. His staging of the student performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth was so successful that the production moved to a professional stage in Cambridge. In 1968 he was appointed artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He held this position until 1986. From 1997 to 2003 he directed the Royal National Theater in London.

Nunn was responsible for many innovative productions, such as Nicholas Nickleby after Charles Dickens . He is a very successful director of musicals such as Cats (1981) and the first English-language production of Les Misérables . He also directed Starlight Express and Sunset Boulevard . His production of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables has been running in London's West End for 30 years and has seen several performances on Broadway .

He has also directed operas at Glyndebourne . He began his work for television with Antonius and Cleopatra in 1974 and for film with the Oscar- nominated version of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler .

Private

Trevor Nunn's first marriage was to actress Janet Suzman , who played roles in a number of his productions, including a. the female lead in the television production of Antonius and Cleopatra (1974). The marriage, which resulted in a son, was divorced in 1986. His second marriage to Sharon Lee-Hill, which resulted in two children, was divorced in 1991. In his third marriage in 1994, he married the 21 years younger actress Imogen Stubbs , the marriage had two children.

Productions (selection)

Film and television (selection)

  • 1975: Hedda Gabler
  • 1978: The Comedy of Errors (TV movie)
  • 1979: Macbeth (TV movie)
  • 1981: Three Sisters (TV movie)
  • 1982: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (TV miniseries)
  • 1983: Idomeneo (TV film) (opera production)
  • 1986: Lady Jane - Queen for Nine Days (Lady Jane)
  • 1987: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (TV movie)
  • 1990: Othello (TV movie)
  • 1993: Porgy and Bess (TV movie)
  • 1996: What you want (Twelfth Night)
  • 1999: Oklahoma! (TV movie)
  • 2001: The Merchant of Venice (TV movie)
  • 2018: Secret of a Life (Red Joan)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sir Trevor Nunn, interviewed on Desert Island Discs, repeat broadcast on Radio 4 Extra, April 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Janet Suzman, biography short filmreference.com, accessed April 20, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Well, Trevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nunn, Sir Trevor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich , Suffolk, England, United Kingdom