Without work from abroad, British theatre is in danger of becoming hidebound. So why doesn't the National Theatre stage any?The National Theatre comes in for greater scrutiny than any other in the country. It must, in a sense, be all things to all people, a distillation of the rest of the theatre ecology while at the same time fill any gaps. In his 1956 essay on "the need for a national theatre", critic Kenneth Tynan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AM on December 12, 2011