Outgoing National Theatre director Trevor Nunn has made a surprise gift to the London theatres – £2.5 million. Nunn was severely criticized during his tenure when it was learned that he was making as much as £25,000 a week from the West End transfer of his award-winning revival of My Fair Lady. “But in a move that will silence his detractors, Nunn has given the theatre £208,000 this year as a first instalment of a legacy to support new work, with £2.3m more coming over the next two years. All the money he has earned from the transfer of ‘My Fair Lady’, as well as ‘Oklahoma!’, which is now on Broadway, will go back into the National’s coffers.”