Kenneth Tynan theatre critic until mid-1963 when he joined the National Theatre. In 1963, Laurence Olivier became the British National Theatre Company's first artistic director. Tynan had been highly dismissive of Olivier's achievements as artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, which had opened in 1962, but he recommended himself for the role of literary manager. Olivier was initially outraged by Tynan's presumption but Olivier's wife, Joan Plowright, convinced him that Tynan would be an asset at the National Theatre Company, then based at the Old Vic theatre. When he became the National Theatre's literary manager, Tynan ceased to be the theatre
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