The NT's former artistic director digs up absorbing material, and argues that high-minded can also be showbiz goldImpressive though his time running the National Theatre was, in one respect Nicholas Hytner still has something to prove: the matter of memoirs. In 1983, his predecessor Peter Hall published his rambunctious and gossipy Diaries, a Tamburlaine-like epic in which Hall locks horns with hostile unions, pettif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31AM on April 29, 2017