Sir Richard Eyre is a cornerstone of contemporary British theatre, who has given us Jonathan Pryce and Daniel Day Lewis as Hamlets, Ian Holm as King Lear, Mary Poppins in the West End and 5 Olivier awards along the way. In the first part of his chat with Jonathan, he charts his rise from a country boy with no knowledge of the form whatsoever to becoming director of the National Theatre. Along the way, we discover which legend he saw playing Hamlet on his first ever trip to see a proper play, why he got drunk on stage performing with Stephen Frears at university, how his complex relationship with his father may have informed much of his greatest work and plenty more besides ...

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