Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, will take part in an ‘in conversation’ event on January 8 with Julia Fawcett, chief executive of The Lowry, talking about his career and the relationship between the Salford venue and the National.
Since The Lowry opened in 2000, 22 National Theatre productions have played its theatres. The current run of the National Theatre’s War Horse is the best-selling production in The Lowry’s history and will return in summer 2014.
Hytner was born in Manchester, attended Manchester Grammar School, and was associate director of the Manchester Royal Exchange from 1985-89.
Since becoming director of the National in 2003, his many productions have included Othello, Hamlet, Timon of Athens and Henry V; Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, The Habit of Art and People; Richard Bean’s One Man Two Guvnors; Phèdre with Helen Mirren; the two-part adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials; and David Hare’s Stuff Happens.