50 years of the National Theatre

To mark its 50th anniversary the National Theatre has released an extensive collection of content from a selection of fifty seminal productions. Featuring exclusive content from the National Theatre’s archive, the app charts the history of the National Theatre through its stage productions from The Recruiting Officer in 1963 through to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in 2012.

Features:

• An interactive timeline of production posters;
• Hundreds of production and rehearsal photographs, costume illustrations, set designs, technical images, annotated scripts and other content from a selection of National Theatre productions;
• Exclusive video interviews with Philip Pullman, Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens, Bunny Christie, and more;
• An overall introduction and an introduction to each production from the playwright Nicholas Wright;
• Exclusive archive recordings from the stage adaptation of His Dark Materials;
• Cast and Creative lists from all 50 productions

Productions are: The Recruiting Officer (1963), Uncle Vanya (1963), Othello (1964), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967), The Dance of Death (1967), The National Health (1969), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1971), The Front Page (1972), No Man’s Land (1975), Bedroom Farce (1977), Betrayal (1978), Plenty (1978), Amadeus (1979), The Life of Galileo (1980), The Romans in Britain (1980), The Oresteia (1981), Guys and Dolls (1982), Glengarry Glen Ross (1983), Tales from Hollywood (1983), The Mysteries (1985), Pravda (1985), Antony and Cleopatra (1987), The Shaughraun (1988), Fuente Ovejuna (1989), Racing Demon (1990), Richard III (1990), The Wind in the Willows (1990), The Madness of George III (1991), An Inspector Calls (1992), Angels in America (1992), Arcadia (1993), Richard II (1995), Stanley (1996), Closer (1997), King Lear (1997), Copenhagen (1998), Oklahoma! (1998), blue/orange (2000), Hamlet (2000), Elmina’s Kitchen (2003), His Dark Materials (2003), Jerry Springer – The Opera (2003), Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (2004), Stuff Happens (2004), The History Boys (2004), Waves (2006), War Horse (2007), The White Guard (2010), London Road (2011), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2012), The Effect (2012)