If you weren’t able to see Edward’s ‘National Histories’ Platform with Anna Carteret and Genista McIntosh on Monday night in The Shed, fear not as it was filmed and is now available to view online. Enjoy!
The bonus CD inside each copy of Edward’s NT 50 special edition of Slim Chances will comprise readings of poems featured in the book as well as brand new poems exclusive to the CD. The following short films offer a sneak preview of the new material. Thank you to those of you who have already …
Back cover design Pre-order your signed copy of the NT 50 special edition of Slim Chances, complete with bonus CD, from Peth’s Staging Post. The official publication date is 22nd October 2013. KR
The 50th anniversary NT special edition of Edward’s book Slim Chances is to be published on 22nd October. It includes previously unpublished material, over eighty illustrations and a section on My Perfect Mind, for which Edward has received a UK Theatre Award nomination for Best Performance. There is also a bonus CD inside – Edward reading many …
Photo by Manuel Harlan We are delighted to announce the exciting news that Edward has been nominated for Best Performance in a Play for My Perfect Mind in this year’s UK Theatre Awards. The UK Theatre Awards, established in 1991, recognize stage productions presented throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This year’s awards, presented …
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. George Eliot A sequel to yesterday’s film on the poetry of puppets:
A day when I saw a puppet show in my hotel drawing room – my first amazed awakening to the fact of theatre. Martha Graham War Horse.Photo by Simon Annand I was reminded on Friday evening, when I saw the National’s magical production of War Horse for the third time, that some of the best, …
As part of my forthcoming special edition of Slim Chances (expected publication date 22 October), I set myself the task of composing a history of the National Theatre’s 50 years in 50 limericks. The film below is a goodly sample of the results. We have another film in the works, to be posted soon. Here …
Photo by EP A special edition of Edward’s book Slim Chances, to celebrate the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary, is now in press with an expected publication date of 22 October 2013. (It was on 22 October 1963 that the NT was launched at the Old Vic with Olivier’s production of Hamlet, starring Peter O’Toole.) The …
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. Isadora Duncan Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. …
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