'Balancing Acts' author Nicholas Hytner looks back at a successful career at London’s National Theatre

You would be forgiven to think that a memoir of a dozen terrifically successful years as director of London’s National Theatre would start with a flick of the scarf and away we go. But our protagonist, Nicholas Hytner, is much too cool a cat for that. Vanity is not the way he rolls and he keeps his ego in the shadow. This from a man who, it is no exaggeration, revolutionized the role of artistic director