Rufus Norris to run the National Theatre
The sixth artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain will be Rufus Norris, it was announced this morning. The bookies' favourites such as Marianne Elliot, Michael Grandage and Dominic Cooke having long since ruled themselves out, Norris can be welcomed as a daring choice. For a start, unlike any of predecessors apart from Hytner, he has never run a large theatre company " although he has been an assoc…