THE NATIONAL THEATRE STORY. (SIGNED)

ROSENTHAL, Daniel.

ISBN 10: 1840027681 / ISBN 13: 9781840027686

Published by Oberon Books, London,, 2013

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. This book is heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Signed by the author on the title page. Flatsigned. ISBN: 1840027681 Pages: 800 Fine in fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE NATIONAL THEATRE STORY. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Oberon Books, London,
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840027681
• ISBN 13: 9781840027686
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theatre

About this title

Synopsis

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is packed with photographs and draws on Daniel Rosenthal's unprecedented access to the National Theatre's own archives, unpublished correspondence and more than 100 new interviews with directors, playwrights and actors, including Olivier's successors as Director (Peter Hall, Richard Eyre,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.

About the Author

Daniel Rosenthal was born in London in 1971. He has written on theatre and film for The Times, Independent and Observer, and his previous books include 100 Shakespeare Films (2007) and Student Editions of David Mamet's Oleanna and Patrick Marber's Closer. He has chaired 30 National Theatre Platforms and is Associate Producer of the recent BBC 4 Arena documentaries on the NT. He lectures on drama, film and journalism for the International Programmes department at Pembroke College, Cambridge His website is www.shakespeareonfilm.com