THE NATIONAL THEATRE STORY
Book ID/图书代码： 03540014B75031
English Summary/英文概要： 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 Company, before Peter Hall took over and, in 1976, led the move into the National’s concrete home on the South Bank.
Altogether, the NT has staged more than 800 productions, premiering some of the 20th and 21st centuries’ most popular and controversial plays, including Amadeus, The Romans in Britain, Closer, The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors.
Certain to be essential reading for theatre lovers and students, The National Theatre Story is packed with photographs and draws on Daniel Rosenthal’s unprecedented access to the National Theatre’s own archives, unpublished correspondence and more than 100 new interviews with directors, playwrights and actors, including Olivier’s successors as Director (Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner), and other great figures from the last 50 years of British and American drama, among them Edward Albee, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, David Hare, Tony Kushner, Ian McKellen, Diana Rigg, Maggie Smith, Peter Shaffer, Stephen Sondheim and Tom Stoppard.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《国家大剧院故事》中充满了各种艺术、金融及政治斗争，各种舞台上的胜利，当然也包括偶尔发生的灾难。这部作品带领读者回顾了大剧院的历史，包括其19世纪的起源，20世纪早期的伪黎明，1963年的艰难开始。在维多利亚时期，劳伦斯•奥利弗曾经担任了10年国家大剧院公司的导演；Peter Hall在1976年接任，主持将大剧院搬迁至西岸。国家大剧院一共上演了800多部作品；包括《莫扎特》《罗马人在英国》《偷心》《历史系男生》《战马》《一夫二主》等多部20及21世纪最受欢迎、最受争议的作品在此首演。本书必将成为戏剧爱好者和戏剧专业学生的必读作品。书中包含了作者从国家大剧院中获得的度假照片及图片，从未发表过的信件和100多位导演、剧作家、演员的访谈，包括奥利弗的后继者Peter Hall、Richard Eyre、Trevor Nunn、Nicholas Hytner等，以及过去50年间英国和美国戏剧届最著名的人物，包括Edward Albee、 Alan Bennett、 Judi Dench、 Michael Gambon、 David Hare、 Tony Kushner、 Ian McKellen、 Diana Rigg、 Maggie Smith、 Peter Shaffer、 Stephen Sondheim和Tom Stoppard等。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：荣获2013年STR戏剧图书奖
“国家大剧院的故事充满了戏剧性……本书讲述了大剧院50年间发生的故事，在这期间，大剧院共上演了800多部戏剧。本书将勾起戏剧爱好者对大剧院的深深回忆。”——《星期日泰晤士报》
“一部强大的著作……Rosenthal以精确而优雅的方式记录了大剧院的历史”——Herald Scotland
Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2013
’The story of the National Theatre is as packed with drama as anything it has staged...Covering 50 years during which the National has staged 800 or so shows, it can t help but prompt vivid memories in theatre-going reader.’ --Sunday Times
’This weighty tome is the definitive history, synthesising many of the previous works, incorporating extensive new interview material with privileged access to directors’ files, administrative records, board papers and the restricted holdings in the NT archive... It’s all here, summarised better than anywhere else…. this is a story with guts, great actors, laughter, disaster, and other properties that most books don’t possess….. It’s the story of a campaign, a process, a fulfilment; of a triumph of the national character despite itself, of a celebration and a realisation of what we, as a nation, simply do better, probably thanks to Shakespeare, than anyone else: the theatre.’ --Michael Coveney, Independent
’[A] mighty tome... Rosenthal documents with precision and style’ --Herald Scotland
’This weighty tome is the definitive history, synthesising many of the previous works, incorporating extensive new interview material with privileged access to directors’ files, administrative records, board papers and the restricted holdings in the NT archive... It’s all here, summarised better than anywhere else…. this is a story with guts, great actors, laughter, disaster, and other properties that most books don’t possess….. It’s the story of a campaign, a process, a fulfilment; of a triumph of the national character despite itself, of a celebration and a realisation of what we, as a nation, simply do better, probably thanks to Shakespeare, than anyone else: the theatre.’ --Michael Coveney, Independent
’[A] mighty tome... Rosenthal documents with precision and style’ --Herald Scotland
About the Author/作者介绍： Daniel Rosenthal，1971年生于伦敦。为《泰晤士报》《独立报》《观察家报》撰写戏剧、电影类的文章。著有《100部莎士比亚的电影》（2007）、《David Mamet的<奥利安娜>和Patrick Marber的<偷心>学生指导用书》等。在剑桥彭布罗克学院国际项目部教授戏剧、电影和新闻学。
Daniel Rosenthal was born in London in 1971. He has written on theatre and film for The Times, Independent and Observer, and his previous books include 100 Shakespeare Films (2007) and Student Editions of David Mamet’s Oleanna and Patrick Marber’s Closer. He has chaired 30 National Theatre Platforms and is Associate Producer of the recent BBC 4 Arena documentaries on the NT. He lectures on drama, film and journalism for the International Programmes department at Pembroke College, Cambridge
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