| Description | Series of articles about theatre, with focus on the National Theatre. Folder 1 January 2003 to January 2004. Topics include: Arts Council plans to restructure funding procedures, Nicholas Hytner to take over from Trevor Nunn as artistic director, new works from seven playwrights including a new play by David Hare after a seven year absence from the National and by Michael Frayn and Mike Leigh, a new cheap ticket seating plan, the stage premiere of His Dark Materials and staging of Jerry Springer - The Opera, Kenneth Branagh in Edmund, measures to improve mutlicutltural respresentation in theatre, the role of a national theatre, a suspension of the touring programme to allow techical and logitical review, a series on political theatre, coverage of the 2003 season, the publication of Richard Eyre's diaries, interview with Lucy Prebble, Peter Hall on working with Harold Pinter, coverage of the Annual Report for 2002-2003, an increased grant from the Arts Council for 2004/05, increased capacity at cheaper ticket price increases the revenue than from higher ticket costs and reduced capacity, a donation from Trevor Nunn from his musical royalties, increased sales to first time theatre goers, a profile of Denys Lasdun by his son James Lasdun. Folder 2 January 2004 to December 2004. Topics include: cvoerage of 2004 season announcement, David Hare's Stuff Happens, concerns over Arts Council cuts to funding as some Lotttery funded projects go over budget, a profile of Nicholas Hytner and NT Associates, the role of the preview, an assessment of Kenneth Tynan, Peter Hall on the state of theatre, Bectu and NT wage agreement, a profile of Michael Blakemore, an interview with Jonathan Miller, modernism in architecture and appraisals of the National Theatre building, and critics and the role of the press night. |