Joan Plowright: what the National Theatre means to me by Joan Plowright

The early days of the National Theatre were thrilling for Joan Plowright and her husband Laurence Olivier, its first artistic directorMy very first connection with the National Theatre began with a letter. It arrived when Laurence Olivier and I were living in New York in 1961, newly married and both acting on Broadway. It came from an optician in Chichester stating they were going to build an amphitheatre in the city…

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