Simon Trussler: a Biography

Simon Trussler, co-founder and co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly in 1985, the successor to Theatre Quarterly which he initiated in 1971, died in hospital in Kent on 30 December 2019 of a heart attack. He was seventy-seven. Not a sudden death, but one that the hospital staff thought might–just might–be averted, it came as a shock and a cause of deep grief, first to his family, and then to all who had worked with him or had otherwise been in contact with him. The tributes below to Simon’s life and considerable achievements are by Nesta Jones, Nick de Somogyi, Dinah Wood, Steve King, and fellow editor of NTQ Maria Shevtsova, who has had the privilege of bringing them together in this issue of the journal. A life full of remarkable accomplishments–we raise a glass in Simon’s honour.