An interview with Nick Starr (founder of the London Theatre Company and Executive Director of the National Theatre 2002-2014), preceding the first of the Keble Debates. The Keble Debates are a new programme of termly conversations, bringing together leading figures from the worlds of theatre, fiction and poetry to explore contemporary issues in the arts, and the way the arts engage with contemporary issues in wider society. The debates will focus on a different artistic form each term in rotation, beginning with the theatre in Michaelmas 2017.