Young Vic the entire faculty resigned from the Old Vic, but in 1969 Frank Dunlop became founder-director of The Young Vic theatre with his free adaptation of Molière's "The Cheats of Scapin", presented at the new venue as a National Theatre production, opening on 11 September 1970 and starring Jim Dale in the title role with designs by Carl Toms (decor) and Maria Bjornson (costumes). Initially part of the National Theatre, the Young Vic Theatre became an independent body in 1974. In the words of Laurence Olivier, then director of the National Theatre: "Here we think to develop plays for young audiences,
Michael Boyd (theatre director) Director a year later. In 1982 he joined the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and three years later became founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, where he staged a production of "Macbeth" starring Iain Glen, an adaptation of Janice Galloway’s "The Trick is to Keep Breathing" and Michel Tremblay’s Quebec plays, "The Real World?" and "The Guid Sisters". Boyd joined the RSC in 1996 as an Associate Director, staging the three parts of "Henry VI" together with "Richard III" at the Young Vic in London in April 2002, as part of the "". During this time