Changing stages : a view of British theatre in the twentieth century

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In 1997 Richard Eyre was invited to write and present a series of programmes for the BBC about the history of the British theatre in the twentieth century. He decided to write the book first and then base his TV series upon it. This is that book. together with Nicholas Wright, an associate director of the Royal National Theatre during Eyre's ten-year directorship, he has written what the two describe as 'a partial, personal and unscholarly view of the century's theatre.' Passionate, opinionated, and in the firm belief that the greatest asset to the British theatre is the English Language, the book explores the owrk of a multitude of actors, directors and writers, from Shakespeare, 'the DNA of British theatre', to Wilde, Synge, Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Stoppard, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Rodgers & Hammerstein and many, many more. In so doing it amply demonstrates the continuing relevance and purpose of theatre in an electronic age.