英国国家剧院（上）—梦想缘起 (2013)

• 别名：BBC Arena: The National Theatre / 英国国家剧院（上）—梦想缘起

• 导演：Adam Low

• 演员：伊恩·麦克莱恩 Ian McKellen/Jonathan Miller Jonathan Miller/乔纳森·米勒 Jonathan Miller/彼得·谢弗 Peter Shaffer/汤姆·斯托帕德 Tom Stoppard/玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith/琼·普莱怀特 Joan Plowright/罗纳德·皮卡普 Ronald Pickup/迈克尔·布莱克莫尔 Michael Blakemore/罗斯玛丽·哈里斯 Rosemary Harris/吉姆·戴尔 Jim Dale/迈克尔·刚本 Michael Gambon/彼得·豪尔 Peter Hall/彼得·布鲁克 Peter Brook/佩内洛普·威尔顿 Penelope Wilton/约翰尼·李·米勒 Jonny Lee Miller/德里克·雅各比 Derek Jacobi

• 类别：纪录片

• 地区及语言：英国
• 英语

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The National Theatre is 50 in October 2013 and has given the BBC unprecedented access to make two Arena documentaries for BBC Four. The films ask why it took until 1963 to create a National Theatre, and Dame Joan Plowright talks frankly to director Adam Low about the appointment of her husband Laurence Olivier, the greatest actor of his generation, as the National's first artistic director. The films uncover the life of the Theatre's early golden period at the Old Vic, the National's first home, under the towering presence of Olivier; the commissioning and construction of the controversial and now iconic Denys Lasdun building on the South Bank; and the turbulent succession of Peter Hall at the end of Olivier's reign. Through the personal anecdotes of those who wrote, directed and performed on the National's many stages the films reveal the stories behind the greatest hit productions, from Olivier's Othello to War Horse, under artistic directors Peter Hall, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and up to and including the latest great successes under Nicholas Hytner. Other contributors include Maggie Smith, Derek Jacobi, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Francis de la Tour, David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn and Adrian Lester....