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Dateline: 30th June, 2010
Nunn: "Profoundly Unhappy and Profoundly Betrayed" "There is no point in beating about the bush. We are profoundly unhappy and we feel profoundly betrayed and we don’t understand," said Trevor Nunn yesterday to Jasper Rees in the Daily Telegraph. He was talking about the new production of Les Misérables which is currently on tour and due to open in the Barbican in September. If the original creative team of Nunn himself, John Caird (co-director) and John Napier (designer) had been asked to recreate the piece for touring, they would, he said, "joyously have accepted." "We were not asked," he told Rees. "In fact, we knew nothing of it. We were kept in the dark. People who were asked were an assistant director of John Caird’s and mine working on the show and John Napier’s assistant who had worked for John Napier many times in different productions abroad of Les Misérables. Those people were asked to become a new production team. "It is not a new production. It is a variant production that owes everything that’s good about it to the original production. And everything that’s not so good about it, and is uncomfortable about it, is the work of a group of assistants. Do you gather that there is some unhappiness here?" Producer Cameron Mackintosh replied that he is "saddened by Trevor's inaccurate and ungracious remarks. I am very proud of the 1985 production that I invited Trevor to direct with John Caird. That Les Mis has become an enduring classic around the world is a testament to the work that Trevor and John did as adaptors and directors. "However," he goes on, "after 25 years, I wished to create a new production that reflected the contemporary appeal of the musical today and it seemed right to engage the energies of a new younger team to do this. I believe that each new generation has to be able to put its own stamp on great material." He insists that Nunn, Caird and Napier had been kept fully infomed at every stage. "It is wholly untrue," he said, "that they were in any way 'kept in the dark'."
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