Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre
Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles,
onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive
account takes readers from the National Theatre's 19th-century
origins, through false dawns in the early 1900s, and on to its
hard-fought inauguration in 1963. At the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier
was for ten years the inspirational Director of the NT Company,
before Peter Hall took over and, in 1976, led the move into the
National's concrete home on the South Bank. Altogether, the NT has
staged more than 800 productions, premiering some of the 20th and
21st centuries' most popular and controversial plays, including
Amadeus, The Romans in Britain, Closer, The History Boys, War Horse
and One Man, Two Guvnors. Certain to be essential reading for
theatre lovers and students, The National Theatre Story is packed
with photographs and draws on Daniel Rosenthal's unprecedented
access to the National Theatre's own archives, unpublished
correspondence and more than 100 new interviews with directors,
playwrights and actors, including Olivier's successors as Director
(Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner), and
other great figures from the last 50 years of British and American
drama, among them Edward Albee, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Michael
Gambon, David Hare, Tony Kushner, Ian McKellen, Diana Rigg, Maggie
Smith, Peter Shaffer, Stephen Sondheim and Tom Stoppard.
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