New artistic director needs to redefine mission of company and venue, following departing Nicholas Hytner's decade of triumphsRunning the National Theatre famously drove him to thoughts of suicide, but Richard Eyre has said that the theatre's next artistic director has a harder task than most, namely to "redefine the function and practice" of the venue.In his published diaries, which document his decade-long stint i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM on October 1, 2013