Category: Archive
Archive Unboxed: children’s adaptations
This winter, the National Theatre is staging a re-imagining of Noel Streatfeild’s much-loved children’s book, Ballet Shoes, continuing the National Theatre’s tradition in programming children’s adaptations which started in 1976.
Archive Unboxed: Celebrating Wole Soyinka’s 90th birthday
Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka is celebrating his 90th birthday! During this Black History Month, the National Theatre Archive would like to spotlight two of Soyinka’s plays, Death and the King’s Horseman and his adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae – honouring his extraordinary career across novels, poetry, and drama.
In Search of Greek Theatre: four new films released
The In Search of Greek Theatre series explores stories and objects from the National Theatre’s Archive to learn more about Greek Theatre in performance. Four new films have now been released.
Reintroducing: The Black Plays Archive
To celebrate its ten year anniversary in 2023, the Black Plays Archive launched a new website! Read all about this online catalogue of the first professional production in the UK of plays written by Black British, African, and Caribbean playwrights.
Archive Unboxed: The House of Bernarda Alba and translation
Read about the history of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre, from translation to performance featuring material from our Archive.
The movement to found the National Theatre
Founded in 1963 with Laurence Olivier as its first Director, the movement to found the National Theatre was over 100 years in the making.
