Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre
By Nicholas Hytner.
Description
** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** 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 ...
ISBN(s)
1910702897, 9781910702895
