The director staging Brian Friel's Translations at the National talks about Ireland, England and the changing face of theatreIan Rickson's route into theatre was not conventional. Growing up in south London, he was rarely taken to the theatre as a child, and discovered plays largely through reading them as a student at Essex University. During those years he stood on a picketline in the miners' strike, and proud…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:18AM on May 21, 2018