50 years celebration, aired on BBC2 on the 2.11.2013

preview/camera rehearsal 1.11.2013

approx. 2h20min

Live performed scenes

Archive material, while stage is prepared for next scene

1. Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Old Vic 1963

Francisco:          Matthew Barker
Barnado:            Stanley Townsend
Horatio:            Anna Maxwell Martin
Marcellus:          Adrian Lester
Ghost:              Derek Jacobi


A SHORT FILM ABOUT LAURENCE OLIVIER


2. Saint Joan
by Bernhard Shaw, Old Vic 1963
Original Director John Dexter

Joan Plowright, filmed at the Old Vic, 11 October 2013


3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
by Tom Stoppard, Old Vic 1967
Original Director Derek Goldby

Rosencrantz:        Benedict Cumberbatch
Guildenstern:       Kobna Holdbrook-Smith


HAY FEVER
by Noel Coward, Old Vic 1964
Director Noel Coward

Myra Arundel:        Maggie Smith
David Bliss:         Anthony Nicholls

4. The Beaux' Stratagem
by George Farquhar, Old Vic 1970
Original Director William Gaskell

Mrs Sullen:           Maggie Smith


5. The National Health
by Peter Nichols, Old Vic 1969
Original Director Michael Blakemore
Original Designer Patrick Robertson

Matron:               Deborah Findley
Sister:               Maggie Service
Lake:                 Akiya Henry
Sweet:                Olivia Vinall
Barnet:               Matt Cross
Mackie:               James Hayes
Ash:                  Anthony O'Donnell
Flagg:                Tim McMullan
Loach:                Charles Kay
Foster:               Gawn Grainger
Dr. Bird:             Michelle Terry


6. No Man's Land
by Harold Pinter, Old Vic 1975
Original Director Peter Hall
Original Designer John Bury

Spooner:              Derek Jacobi
Hirst:                Michael Gambon



7. Bedroom Farce
by Alan Ayckbourn, Lyttelton 1977
Original Directors Alan Ayckbourn and Peter Hall
Original Designers Timothy O'Brien & Tazeena Firth

Ernest:               Nicholas le Prevost
Delia:                Penelope Wilton


AMADEUS
by Peter Shaffer, Olivier 1979
Director Peter Hall
Designer John Bury

Antonio Salieri:       Paul Scofield

8. Guys and Dolls
based an a story and characters of Damon Runyon
music & lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows, Olivier 1982
Original Director Richard Eyre
Original Choreographer David Toguri
Original Designer John Gunter

Nicely-Nicely:            Clive Rowe
Arvide Abernathy:         Nicholas Lumley
General Cartwright:       Sharon D Clarke
Martha:                   Nicola Sloane
Agatha:                   Maggie Service
Sarah Brown:              Sophie Bould
Mission Girl:             Alexis Owen-Hobbs
Big Jule:                 Stanley Townsend
Nathan Detroit:           Matt Cross
with:                     Edward Baruwa, Kevin Brewis, James Doherty, Kate Fleetwood
                          Jonathan Glew, Richard Henders, Nick Holder, Alastair Parker,
                          Paul Thornley, Howard Ward, Russell Wilcox & Duncan Wisbey


9. Pravda
by Howard Brenton & David Hare, Olivier 1985
Original Director David Hare









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