| Description | Press coverage and public responses during the early years of the National Theatre at the South Bank. Topics include; the role of a national theatre, national theatre companies buying and keeping the rights to plays, calls for the National Theatre Company to visit the regions, criticism of interior layout, dim lighting and navigation problems, allegations of overspending and the cost of directors and actor's salaries, responses from the National Theatre Board, scheduling policies, architectural criticism of the South Bank building, criticism of choice of early productions, calls to allow time for the National policies to develope and to be judged after a reasonable period of time |