Peter Hall
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Oct 30, 2026
Charles EdwardsGUEST
And I played Sandy, the boxer.
Charles EdwardsGUEST
And before we started rehearsals, I said to Peter, could I, Peter Hall will direct it, could I play Richard? And he said, no, no, no, you're far too young.
Charles EdwardsGUEST
Which I was, and William Chubb then did it brilliantly.
Charles EdwardsGUEST
And I keep hearing William Chubb in my head when I'm playing.
Rosie KayGUEST
We're slightly more, I think the Gen Xers are slightly more sort of, used to working on their own, don't necessarily want to take the big responsibility because it used to be that the artists would be the leaders.
Rosie KayGUEST
Sir Peter Hall became the director of the National Theatre in his 30s.
Rosie KayGUEST
The directors, the choreographers, the artists, they became the leaders.
Rosie KayGUEST
There was a big shift through the 90s for arts administration and this kind of like accountability to funding.
Keturah MorrisGUEST
And it was really the vision of Dennis Lasden with Sir Lawrence Olivier and the brilliant people who sat on various boards over the years when it was developed that that developed this idea of a democratic space, a home for Shakespeare originally, and then increasingly this idea of a home for new writing developed.
Keturah MorrisGUEST
Sir Peter Hall was incredibly important in developing that.
Keturah MorrisGUEST
And I do think that that centre of excellence that runs complementary to the West End but has something very different to offer was really at its core democratic, owned by the people to represent the stories of this nation.
Keturah MorrisGUEST
And I think that's how it has consistently attracted these massive names.
Oz ClarkeGUEST
Trevor Nunn was in that night.
Oz ClarkeGUEST
Peter Hall.
Oz ClarkeGUEST
Everybody was in that night.
Oz ClarkeGUEST
And the next morning, on the Monday, Stigwood just rang up and said, oh, by the way, we need a new Piran.
WillHOST
[laughs]
Judi DenchGUEST
I can remember doing a, a play with Peter Hall called The Royal Family.
WillHOST
Mm.
Judi DenchGUEST
And I knew Peter very well by then, 'cause he, I was...
Brendan O'HeaGUEST
That's the, that is-
WillHOST
That's the main thing.
WillHOST
You mentioned Peter Hall earlier as somebody that you've worked with repeatedly, and, and you also say in the book that when you're working with directors again and again, there's a sort of a shared language that you have that is... becomes a bit of a shortcut when you're working-
Judi DenchGUEST
Yes
Matt CummingsHOST
Because at the end of the day, she is i- in particular a singing who- a, a singer whose working relationships are, are, like, an extremely important tent pole of her career.
Matt CummingsHOST
Like, from John Pritchard, Sir John Pritchard, to Pavarotti, uh, to Sir Peter Hall, and, uh, Colin Davis, who, who was the, the conductor who, like, put her on all of these Mozart recordings when Phillips went to record all of the Mozart operas.
Matt CummingsHOST
Peter Hall was one of her favorite directors who, like, went to bat for her to get her... to get George Schulte to let her be Tatyana in Eugene Onegin.
Matt CummingsHOST
Uh, I mean, like, you don't get that many telecasts without James Levine being on your side.
Matt CummingsHOST
Um, but of all these people, like, the most important, uh, conductor to her was Carlos Kleiber, who absolutely pushed her to her limits, as she said in, i- and from Ilona Kotrbáš, I don't think that there's more of a, of a compliment than that.
Elliot James LangridgeHOST
Yeah.
Simone Pereira HindGUEST
But she'd al- always worked in the industry as well, so she, she's a bit older than me, but I think she worked at the National Theatre for many years for Peter Hall when he was running the National Theatre.
Simone Pereira HindGUEST
And what else did she do? She worked at Lemmy Henry and Dawn French for many years.
Simone Pereira HindGUEST
She worked for Comic Relief.
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
Exactly.
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
And because of that, there were probably at that time maybe eight first-class directors, and they would include Trevor Nunn, Hal Prince, Mike Ockrent, Peter Hall, etc.
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
If I was on a list, because of some of the galas I've done, I would probably be, say, in the top 20 somewhere, possibly.
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
But at that time, they stopped going down lists because market forces dictated that they got the name who the building people knew who they were.
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
In other words, whereas once I might be asked to direct a production in Leatherhead... which might then move to London.
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn were then directing at the Thorndike Leatherhead because they weren't working in other theatres.
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
And also, if Peter Hall or Trevor Nunn weren't available, or Richard Eyre, weren't available for May 1999, they would say, well, we'll wait till...
Hugh WooldridgeGUEST
May 2000 not let's find another director so which is a very long way of saying that I wasn't going to wait to go up the list I wanted to try and make my way up the list doing something which nobody else was doing and so I tended to specialise in doing these fly by a seat relying on the charity of others productions and do you know what if you'd said to me 25 years ago that you're going to spend your life raising money for other people I would have laughed because I always saw myself as a commercial director hopefully raising money for other people but more for producers than for charitable causes but because so many of the events that I do involve so many people who if you were to put a commercial value on them you wouldn't be able to afford to do them they do tend to be events that raise money for other people, which is great, and I'm really happy about it.
Charlie RoseHOST
Yes.
Antony Armstrong-JonesGUEST
And, um, I also was working very closely with Peter Brook and Peter Hall.
Charlie RoseHOST
Right.
Antony Armstrong-JonesGUEST
Um, all directors were then called Peter.
Charlie RoseHOST
[laughs]
Antony Armstrong-JonesGUEST
And, um-
Charlie RoseHOST
Peter Hall, Peter Brook.
Charlie RoseHOST
Yeah.