Balancing Acts Behind the Scenes at London's National Theatre by NicholasHytner Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49340-8, ISBN: 0-451-49340-0
"From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre--this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors. The list of Nicholas Hytner's accomplishments is long and distinguished: as Artistic Director of London's National Theatre from 2003-2015, he directed and produ ..."
Balancing Acts(Reprint) Behind the Scenes at London's National Theatre by NicholasHytner Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97288-5, ISBN: 1-101-97288-2
"From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre--this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors. The list of Nicholas Hytner's accomplishments is long and distinguished: as Artistic Director of London's National Theatre from 2003-2015, he directed and produ ..."
Balancing Acts Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre (Paperback) by Sir NicholasHytner Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-414-8, ISBN: 1-78470-414-8
20th Century Icons-Film(1st Edition) by NicholasHytner Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2001 by Absolute Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-899791-87-3, ISBN: 1-899791-87-6
"20th Century Icons is a stylish, quirky and instantly collectable series of little books created to celebrate the last hundred years. Famous names in the arenas of fashion, film, rock and pop, design, kitsch and camp have all chosen their own personal icons, recorded with interesting and amusing and sometimes controversial results. Nicholas Hytner, director of The Madness of King George, The Crucible and The Object of My Affection, choo ..."
"The screenplay edition of the major motion picture adaptation, starring Maggie Smith, of Alan Bennett's acclaimed story "The Lady in the Van." This edition features an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner (Miss Saigon, The History Boys), and a new preface and film diary by the author.From acclaimed author and playwright Alan Bennett, whose smash hit The History Boys won a Tony Award for Best Play, comes the screenplay of The Lady in ..."
"Featuring a selection of play excerpts performed by Nicholas Hytner's handpicked cast including Simon Russell Beale, Samuel Barnett and Deborah Findley! You start with a vision, and you deliver a compromise. You want a play to be challenging, ambitious, nuanced and complicated. You also want it to sell tickets. You want to make art, and you know you're in show business. These are some of the balancing acts that the National Theatre and ..."
"'This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeare's twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from playing him' Nicholas Hytner, from his Foreword Twelve leading actors take us behind the scenes ..."
The History Boys(1st Edition) The Film by Alan Bennett, NicholasHytner Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2006 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-971-5, ISBN: 0-86547-971-2
"Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well as an extensive plate section that includes a look behind the scenes and stills from the film. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, spo ..."
"How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalization had on the relationship between theatre and nation?Theatre and Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists engage with the nation, nationalism and national identity in their work. The book argues that theatrical representations of the nation are constant ..."
The Director's Craft(1st Edition) A Handbook for the Theatre by Katie Mitchell, NicholasHytner Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-40439-6, ISBN: 0-415-40439-8
" The Director s Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage. Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and practitioner s kitbag. It provides detailed assistance with each aspect of the varied challenges facing all theatre directors, and does so with startling clarity. It will inspire everyone, from ..."
Balancing Acts Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre by NicholasHytner 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4735-4570-0, ISBN: 1-4735-4570-6
"You want to make art, and you know you’re in show business. These are some of the balancing acts that the National Theatre, and this book, is about. This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre."
Balancing Acts Behind the Scenes at London's National Theatre by NicholasHytner 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49341-5, ISBN: 0-451-49341-9
"But his productions never need any intervention from me. “It's great,” I tell him,
though he's already worrying about everything he thought was less than great.
Jeannette Nelson, the head of Voice, follows me back upstairs to the office,
wondering whether I'd been able to hear the actor who has come back to the
theatre after three years on television. Jeannette is serene and sane even when
actors are losing their heads, and helps t ..."
The History Boys(1st Edition) The Film by Alan Bennett, NicholasHytner Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2006 by Faber. Import ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23173-7, ISBN: 0-571-23173-X
"Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well as an extensive plate section that includes a look behind the scenes and stills from the film. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, spo ..."
"Transcripts of talks with Philip Pullman, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Nicholas Hytner and others. The discussions, which took place during the first run of "His Dark Materials" at the National Theatre, are lively and entertaining debates about some of the themes in the trilogy."
"Model steam trains chug around the railway and the Bekonscot fire brigade has
never gone on strike. Bekonscot is truly a little piece of history that is for ever
England. ... World War Bekonscot was used for propaganda photographs,
showing the gardener as air raid warden and tin-hatted fire crews standing by the
castle."
"What happens when a young boy named Tom, apprenticed as a chimney sweep, gets framed for theft in 1850s England? Even though a young girl named Ellie knows the real thieves' identities and tries to clear Tom's name, Tom's desperate escape run lands him right in the middle of Dead Man's Pool. Assumed to have met certain death, Tom gets sucked into a magical underwater world. Tom befriends the creatures he meets beneath the sea, and they ..."
"The primary appeal of dance movies is the dancing, with some added emphasis on the romance the art expresses. Center Stage wins on these counts, despite its reveling in overly familiar characters and formula plotting. Or maybe this reveling is responsible for what goofy fun this film is. The arduous task of becoming a professional ballet dancer is incarnated by many good-looking teens, all stock dance-film characters affectionately port ..."