Rufus Norris’s guide to London: pelicans, Dulwich reclamation and mudlarking
A flat in Peckham Rye that I share with my better half Tanya [Ronder] and our two cats. We downsized recently after our two boys flew the coop. It’s great; calm and quiet. It’s opposite where William Blake saw his angels. Rufus Norris, Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive of the National Theatre, at a performance of "Death Of England: The Plays", in 2024Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty IWhere was your first flat in the capital?It was a squat near the Oval in 1987, when I was at drama school, and I left around 1991. I absolutely loved it. There were two of us, well, it fluctuated between two and eight. At one time we came home and some other squatters had broken in via the ceiling. We came in and the whole ceiling was down, and we found a note from them saying, “Sorry, we thought it wa...










