The National Theatre story. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Rosenthal.
• Authors: Rosenthal, Daniel, 1971-
• Contents: Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Author's Note; List of Illustrations; Prologue; 1848-1963 False Dawns; 1848-81 'A House for Shakespeare'; 1882-1906 Enter the Founding Fathers; 1906-12 'Dumb Craven Stones'; 1913-40 From Bloomsbury to Kensington; 1940-49 'A Small Bill With a Very Great Purpose'; 1949-60 'Here We Lay Stone ... '; 1961-63 'A Theatre Is To Be Built in Chichester'; 1963-74 Director of the NT Laurence Olivier; 1963 'After A Wait of 100 Years, This Will Do for a Start'; 1963 The Architect Who Carried 'Quiet Conviction' 1964 'Olivier Took Everybody's Breath Away'1964 'The Men Climb the Andes'; 1964 The Censors Within; 1965 Lasdun's South Bank 'Fairyland'; 1965 Darkness Visible; 1965 Farewell to the Opera; 1966 'Batting On a Wet Wicket'; 1967 Hamlet's Cronies in an Existential Fable; 1967 'Grotesque and Grievous Libel'; 1967 The Man Who Played Rosalind; 1967 'The Finest-Looking Theatre in the World'; 1968 'This Is Not Going To Be Fun'; 1969 A Company in Rude Health; 1970 'Dear Larry, Here Are A Few Jewish Snaps'; 1970 'To Old Vic, a Son'; 1971 One Savaged Tyger, Four Haunted Tyrones. 1972 Farce That Affirms the Existence of God1972 'A Heart Transplant on a Healthy Patient'; 1972 'Re-Opening the Old, Ugly Controversy'; 1972 'The Child Is Now an Adult'; 1973 From Elysée to Equus; 1973 Party Politics; 1974-88 Director of the NT Peter Hall; 1974 'Big Is Not Always Beautiful'; 1974 Nichols and Miller Crash on The Freeway; 1975 Hall's Marathon and Laughing Matters; 1976 'Our New Palace of Culture'; 1976 'Waters Muddied By Mistrust'; 1976 Industrial Strife: On and Off Stage; 1976 A Theatre Fit for the Queen; 1977 'Carte Blanche for a Black Box' 1977 Can Ayckbourn Serve Two Masters?1977 The War of Cooper's Basins; 1978 Days of Plenty and Betrayal; 1979 The Spring of Discontent; 1979 'Amadeus Has the Taste of an Opera'; 1980 Failure on a Grand Scale; 1980 Glory for Gambon; 1980 Bryden's 'Untameables'; 1980 The Third Way; 1980 Mary Whitehouse vs. The Romans . . .; 1981 'Unmistakably a Landmark'; 1981 A Change of Direction?; 1982 Deputies and Dolls; 1982 Upstream Without a Paddle; 1983 'No End to Sir Peter's Year of Misfortune?'; 1983 McKellen's Return; 1984 A Low-Tech Laboratory; 1985 The Coffee-Table Crisis; 1985 Meet Lambert Le Roux. 1986 The Coronation of King Richard1987 Carbone, King Lear and Cleopatra; 1988 Hall's Revels Now Are Ended . . .; 1988-97 Director of the NT Richard Eyre; 1988 Churchill's Daughter and the Royal Appellation; 1988 Revolve and Rapture; 1989 Too Few Sponsors, Too Many Princes; 1989 'Almost An Impertinence to Applaud'; 1990 Sunday in the Park Withdrawals; 1990 Exit Aukin, Enter McIntosh; 1990 A Tale of Two Kings; 1991 When Hytner Met Bennett; 1992 Eyre Slows, Horrocks Sings; 1992 The Inspector Who Kept Calling; 1992 Carousel and Colour; 1993 Mea Culpa and Machinal; 1993 Rejection and Ridicule.
• Publisher Details: London : Oberon Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 846 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates)
• Subjects: 792.09421; PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General; National Theatre (Great Britain) - History; History; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1849439435; 9781849439435
• Related ISBNs: 9781840027686; 1840027681
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.