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...years ago, the actress discovered a reference the playwright made to his forgotten early work: "I have never written anything since then that could compete with it in violence and horror." She tracked down the manuscript at the University of Texas and eventually showed it to Trevor Nunn, the acclaimed British director (Nicholas Nickleby; Cats) who is now artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre. Nunn's first reaction was surprise that there was no role in it for Redgrave. Her unearthing of the play "was a completely philanthropic gesture," he marvels. His second reaction was that he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Sweatbox Named Desire | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Nunn's production had its premiere in London in March, and (with the same cast, a mix of British and American actors) is making its American debut at Houston's Alley Theatre. It is a startling theatrical discovery: an impassioned social drama that is as far as one can imagine from the more personal, lyrical style that Williams introduced a few years later in The Glass Menagerie. The earlier play is something of a mess--more than three hours long, with too many characters and subplots, overwrought melodramatics and snippets of dialogue that sound like, well, bad Tennessee Williams (Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Sweatbox Named Desire | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...million customers booking passage last year--a 10-fold increase from two decades ago--major carriers such as Carnival and Royal Caribbean have steamed to record sales and profits. They have turned a once snooty form of travel into mass-market vacations for people like Ken and Sherry Nunn and daughter Ashley, an Indiana family that recently spent three nights aboard Royal Caribbean's cozy 2,250-passenger Sovereign of the Seas. "Everything's right there, and you don't have to run yourself crazy looking for something to do," says Sherry, who sampled the lavish feedings and reveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruise Lines Go Overboard | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...Miserables After 10 years on Broadway, the Alain Boublil-Claude-Michel Schonberg musical had fallen into serious disrepair. So directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird became their own show doctors, replacing much of the cast and giving the production a thorough overhaul. Mon Dieu! Les Miz is back and as rousing as ever. Now, about Miss Saigon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST THEATER OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

When asked if he would ever again run for office, Nunn said, "I wouldn't write it off. It is possible, not probable...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nunn Calls Nuclear Terrorism Top Problem | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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