The National Theatre - Programme, 1969
Title
The National Theatre - Programme, 1969
Date
17 March 1969
Description
Full programme for triple bill of three National Theatre productions - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Advertisement and Home & Beauty.
What's the story?
The three productions presented by the National Theatre during this week are Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, The Advertisement by Natalia Ginzburg and Home and Beauty by W. Somerset Maugham.
All three productions featured notable and major actors including John Stride, Edward Petherbridge, Joan Plowright, Geraldine McEwan and Robert Stephens.
National Theatre Director Laurence Olivier directs The Advertisement, alongside Donald MacKechnie and appears in Home and Beauty.
Olivier is regarded as the finest actor of his generation and his status remains undimmed.
In a 1969 interview for Anglia television, Olivier commented that he now leans towards smaller parts, hence his role in Home and Beauty, preferring to concentrate on directing as well as running the National Theatre and trying to establish it for the future.
Whatever the size of the role, to have one of the major actors of the twentieth century on its stage would have been a major event for the Theatre Royal.
All three productions featured notable and major actors including John Stride, Edward Petherbridge, Joan Plowright, Geraldine McEwan and Robert Stephens.
National Theatre Director Laurence Olivier directs The Advertisement, alongside Donald MacKechnie and appears in Home and Beauty.
Olivier is regarded as the finest actor of his generation and his status remains undimmed.
In a 1969 interview for Anglia television, Olivier commented that he now leans towards smaller parts, hence his role in Home and Beauty, preferring to concentrate on directing as well as running the National Theatre and trying to establish it for the future.
Whatever the size of the role, to have one of the major actors of the twentieth century on its stage would have been a major event for the Theatre Royal.
Type
Programme
Location of item
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Rights
Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
Contributor
Researcher: David Longford
