Richard Eyre on how John Gunter used stage design to transform space
I first worked with John Gunter in 1969 at the then Hampstead Theatre Club, and it was from John that I really learned to be a director. I was then 26 and he was 30, but he had already made his name at the Royal Court, taking from it and from its presiding designer, Jocelyn Herbert, a design philosophy that embraced white light, a simple stage, real objects, use of real materials in the costumes, exposed lighting bar…