The play that changed my life: 'Comedians got me the job running the National Theatre'
Our series on theatrical discoveries continues with Trevor Griffiths' incandescent examination of laughter and prejudice, remembered by the director who first put it on I very nearly lost my job in advance over Comedians. Apart from that, it led me to work with a group of actors who then went on to be astonishingly well-known " Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Rea, Tom Wilkinson. It was transformative for all of us. And it ha…