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...like students during freshman week, seeking the proper doors and directions. The center contains Barbican Hall, home of the London Symphony Orchestra, three cinemas, an art gallery, two restaurants and the Barbican Theater, which last week became the new London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, replacing the venerable Aldwych Theater. With a thrust stage, and no seat farther than 65 ft. from the stage, the theater's novelty may be that it has no aisles: playgoers enter their rows from outside the orchestra according to lighted alphabetical letters...
Nunn and Co-Director John Caird, 33, decided on Nicholas Nickleby and commissioned Playwright David Edgar, 33, to write the adaptation. Edgar, whose Destiny was produced at the Aldwych in 1977 and whose Mary Barnes was staged at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater last year, recalls that "it was a twofold challenge: to convert a rambling, complexly plotted novel into a play in a few months, and to respond to ideas from the two directors, from Designer John Napier, from Composer Stephen Oliver and all those actors." Working communally?an R.S.C. tradition exemplified by Peter Brook's 1970 production...
...voices rising in the middle of this exclusive restaurant. We must have resembled nothing so much as two gays who'd gone away for the weekend to sort out their relationship." Nunn and Caird sorted it out well enough: Nickleby opened at the R.S.C.'s London base, the Aldwych Theater, in June 1980. Early reviews ran the gamut from apathy to ecstasy, but audiences loved it from the first. The show returned to the R.S.C. repertory for two more extended runs, and was the hottest ticket in London...
...financial crisis of 1979 urged the decision on him. The Conservative government was making worrisome noises about cutting its subsidies to the arts. Since the R.S.C. receives more than one-third of its support from an Arts Council grant, the company cautiously renewed its lease on the Aldwych for only the first half of 1980. This meant that whatever activity was undertaken there would have to keep some 40 actors busy as well as light a fire under the Arts Council...
...company is subject to growing pains. Growth at this moment seems to be the biggest challenge the R.S.C. will have to face. Years ago, the company guaranteed its participation in an arts center projected by the City of London. As a result, it is scheduled to move from the Aldwych, perhaps as early as next year, into one of those concrete culture centers that look like a Führerbunker. More space, more audiences, more responsibility and, most difficult, different roots. One problem at the National Theater just now is that the lavish new quarters on the South Bank...