Summing up this triumphant period, The Guardian critic Michael Billington later wrote: "1977 the RSC struck gold. This was, in fact, the perihelion of Trevor Nunn's ten-year reign as the company's sole Artistic Director and Chief Executive (in 1978 he began to share power with Terry Hands). In London, the company opened a new studio space at the Donmar Warehouse with plays by Barker, Taylor, Bond and Brecht. Its Aldwych repertory combined the usual Stratford transfers with Nichol's "Privates on Parade", Ibsen's "Pillars of the Community" and Brecht's "The Days of the Commune". At the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Terry Hands and actor Alan Howard had a marathon year working on "Henry V", a virtually uncut, "Henry VI, part 1", "Henry VI, part 2" and "Henry VI, part 3" and "Coriolanus". And the action at The Other Place included Jonson, Ford, Musset, Gems and Rudkin. No other company in the world could match that output for quantity and quality".