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Sir Peter Hall and Lara Foot Newton
Embarking on the second cycle of the Rolex Mentor Protégé Arts Initiative, Sir Peter Hall had a logical, coherent plan. His agenda for the year included several of his specialties: among them Shakespeare (As You Like It, for the first time in his career), Harold Pinter (a revival of Betrayal, of which he directed the premiere in 1978), and opera (La Cenerentola the Rossini version of Cinderella).
Wasting no time, Sir Peter summoned Lara Foot Newton to rehearsals for his production of Shaw’s Man and Superman even before the programme had officially begun. But Sir Peter soon began to develop an intriguing theory about his new associate. “My hunch,” he said within weeks, “is that Lara’s really a primary creator. Not an interpreter or a ‘re-creator’, though she can do that, too. Writing plays, making films – that’s where she belongs.”