Changing Stages DVD - (2000) - Theatre William Shakespeare Musicals

Richard Eyre's six-part series on the English-speaking theatre of the 20th Century.

Eyre looks at influences on the British theatre as he came to the end of his tenure as the National Theatre's artistic director; typically, he focuses on a few key writers per episode, loosely organised into factions or geographical influence (thus, in the episode on the American influences we get Odets, Williams, Miller and the Broadway musical).

The presentation relies heavily on clips from the plays discussed, archive interview footage, and contemporary talking head comments. Eyre himself presents throughout, and no one can doubt his enthusiasm and commitment to the craft he has long perfected as a director of drama and musicals. This is a valuable and now rarely-seen series.

What follows is a highly original survey of modern British theatre, beginning with Shakespeare, "the DNA of British theatre", and moving through the pervasive influence of Irish playwrights (Congreve, Shaw, Wilde and Yeats), the significance of the American influences from O'Neill to Rodgers and Hammerstein, the impact of Brecht, the breakthrough of Look Back in Anger in 1956, and concluding chapters on the current state of the theatre.

Contributors include:
Arthur Miller
Ian McKellen
John Gielgud
Judi Dench
Peter Brook
Peter Hall
Richard Eyre
Tom Stoppard
Trevor Nunn
Harold Pinter
Edward Bond
Bllie Whitelaw
Caryl Churchill
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Bennett
Stephen Berkoff
Robert Lepage
Julie Taymor
Tony Kushner
Vanessa Redgrave
Rodney Ackland
Alan Bates
Peter Hall
David Hare
Tom Stoppard
Peter Shaffer
Stephen Sondheim
Harold Prince
Arthur Laurents
Stephen Rea
Liam Neeson

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Never commercially released, transferred from TV recording to DVD
Very good quality 8 / 10 - Excellent production

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