When I Was At Stratford, The Very First Thing That I Was Commissioned To Work On Was Trying To Make A Musical Out Of The Documentary Material About The General Strike, Which Was The Next Big Historical Event In England, After The First World War. - SearchQuotes

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When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

Trevor Nunn

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