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Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre by Hytner Nicholas
Category: Film & Movies
'Witty, waspish, and extraordinarily wise.' Sam Mendes The Sunday Times Bestseller 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 th ...Show more
Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre by Nicholas Hytner
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
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 ...Show more
The History Boys (Film edition) by Alan Bennett & Nicholas Hytner (adapted from the original stage play by Alan Bennett)
Category: Fiction
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room rivalry ...Show more
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