Daily Inspiration Quote by Trevor Nunn

You can hear the institutional ambition humming under Nunn's tidy list of "it was going to..". clauses. This isn't a starry-eyed origin story about theater magic; it's a recollection of infrastructure being built in real time, with a director's instinct for logistics. Nunn frames Peter Hall's early Royal Shakespeare Company not as a brand but as a system: ensemble, repertory, and a split identity between London and the Midlands. Each choice is aesthetic and political at once, because the way you organize actors determines the kind of art you can make - and who gets to claim it.

The ensemble promise pushes back against the cult of the marquee name. Repertory rejects the idea that a production is a disposable "event" meant to cash out and move on. A dual home answers a British class-and-geography problem: Shakespeare can't remain the cultural property of London without becoming a museum piece for the capital. The Midlands base (Stratford as source, London as amplifier) reads like a bid to balance origin and access, tradition and visibility.

Nunn's subtext is generational: he’s pointing to a moment when theater believed it could rewire itself structurally, not just interpretively. The repetition also carries a quiet marvel - not "we hoped", but "those things were happening". The sentence memorializes a rare alignment of vision, funding, leadership, and cultural appetite, when governance and artistry briefly felt like the same project.