Winner, STR Theatre Book Prize 2013, awarded by the Society for Theatre Research 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 C.
Oberon Books The national theatre story, hardcover/daniel rosenthal
