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...even in Hatfield's office, there seems to be little interest in forcing the registration issue. "Who knows, if we bring it up on the floor, (Sen. Sam) Nunn (D-Ga.) might push for a draft--that's what he wants anyway," says Hatfield's adviser, who fears "backing the president against the wall" by focusing too much attention on registration...
...Director Nunn, 40, had been thinking about doing a Dickens adaptation for some time, but the 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...
...choice of Nicholas Nickleby required an entire show to be put together in six months from a play that did not exist. Nunn chose David Edgar, a young British playwright whose work the R.S.C. had staged in the Warehouse, its smaller theater in Covent Garden, to adapt a script from the teeming incidents of Dickens' 800-plus pages. "I was writing Part 2 while rewriting Part 1, and it was all constantly changing," Edgar recalls. Five weeks before the opening, he had reached only the mid-point of Part...
While Edgar was typing, Nunn asked all of his 43 actors to initiate their own research projects, read the novel and select which of the 157 characters they wanted to play. Roger Rees and David Threlfall, who are, respectively and wonderfully, Nickleby and the orphan Smike, are the only two actors in the piece with only one part to play. All the others average six: usually two major roles and a gallery of minor parts. R.S.C. Designer John Napier, who made all the costumes, took Polaroid photos for reference and found at the end that he had assembled an album...
...experimental house called the Other Place, showed the company in hot pursuit of both ends of the spectrum. In London, besides the astonishing Nicholas, the company offered an excellent Juno and the Paycock, with a force-of-nature performance by Judi Dench, and, at the Warehouse, a shattering Trevor Nunn staging of The Three Sisters: spare, witty and primal, featuring extraordinary performances by three of the company's young comers (Emily Richard, Janet Dale, Suzanne Bertish) and some of its stalwarts, including Roger Rees...