Time & Perspective Quote by Trevor Nunn

There’s a quiet drama in how Trevor Nunn stacks time and resolve in one breath: “I’ve just taken the decision” lands like a boardroom minute, then the sentence swerves into something more intimate and exposed - “I’m going to now go full time back into the theater.” The phrasing is almost comically over-engineered, as if he’s reassuring himself as much as anyone else. That’s the subtext: returning to theater isn’t framed as a nostalgic drift but as a deliberate recommitment, a career reorientation that needs to be stated out loud to become real.

Nunn’s stature sharpens the stakes. This is not an early-career artist “trying something new.” It’s a director whose name is welded to British theater’s institutional machinery (the RSC, the National) and to big, audience-facing spectacle (from Shakespeare to megamusicals). When someone like that says “back,” it carries an implicit critique of the other arenas he’s been working in - film, television, the commercial circuit - as if they’ve been productive but not fully consonant with his artistic identity.

The line also nods to theater’s particular cultural economy: less stable, more collaborative, more ephemeral, yet often more artistically “true” in the way practitioners mythologize it. “Full time” is the tell. It suggests theater as vocation rather than gig, a choice to accept its grind and its precariousness for the payoff of live encounter. In a moment when screen work can feel like the default prestige path, Nunn’s statement reads as a veteran’s vote of confidence in the stage as the place where craft, authority, and risk still meet.