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Balancing acts: behind the scenes at the National Theatre

โœ Scribed by Nicholas Hytner

Publisher
Random House;Jonathan Cape
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
251 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

You start with a vision, and you deliver a compromise.

You want a play to be challenging, ambitious, nuanced and complicated. You also want it to sell tickets.

You want to make art, and you know you're in** show business.**

These are some of the balancing acts that the National Theatre, and this book, is about.

This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain's greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular successes such as The History Boys ,War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors ; of opening the doors of the National Theatre to a broader audience than ever before, and changing the public's perception of what theatre is for.

It is about probing Shakespeare from every angle and reinventing the classics. About fostering new talent and directing some of most celebrated actors of our times. Its cast includes the likes of Alan...

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