The National’s Nick Hytner on Ben Johnson
in Directors, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Theatre People
29th September 2006
INTERVIEW: NICHOLAS HYTNER
The National’s artistic director talks to Heather Neill about his modern-dress version of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, and also has a punchy message for Shakespeare-deniers.
The notion that Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays is just as absurd as Holocaust Denial.
