Actor and theatrical visionary who was the founding artistic director of the Crucible in Sheffield, which opened in 1971 with a radical 'thrust stage'When Colin George announced in 1967 that the new theatre planned for Sheffield would have a thrust stage with the audience on three sides, one city councillor said he was not "going to pay to see Hamlet's backside" and Sir Bernard Miles, then running the Mermaid in Lond…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM on October 31, 2016