This week, Rufus Norris was appointed the new director of the National theatre. After 50 dramatic years, where does he take it from here? Guardian critic Michael Billington assesses how his predecessors shaped a British institution " for better or worse"There is no such thing as Shakespeare's Hamlet," Oscar Wilde resonantly declared in "The Critic as Artist". By that he meant that the role was defined by th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AM on October 18, 2013