Past productions 1981-1985

The first performances by the National Theatre took place in 1963 at the Old Vic. Listed here are productions from 1981 to 1985.

1981
MAN AND SUPERMAN
by Bernard Shaw
Director Christopher Morahan
Olivier 22 January 1981

THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN
by Tom Taylor
Director Piers Haggard
Cottesloe 12 February 1981

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY
by Ivan Turgenev
translated by Isaiah Berlin
Director Peter Gill
Olivier 19 February 1981

DON JUAN
by Molière
translated by John Fowles
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 7 April 1981

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
by William Shakespeare
Director Michael Rudman
Lyttelton 14 April 1981

SERJEANT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE
by John Arden
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 27 May 1981

THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY
by Thomas Dekker
Director John Dexter
Olivier 19 June 1981

ONE WOMAN PLAYS
by Dario Fo & Franca Rame
version by Olwen Wymark
Director Michael Bogdanov
Cottesloe 26 June 1981

THE MAYOR OF ZALAMEA
by Calderon
translated by Adrian Mitchell
Director Michael Bogdanov
Cottesloe 12 August 1981

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by William Shakespeare
Director Peter Gill
Olivier 14 August 1981

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
by Edward Albee
Director Nancy Meckler
Lyttelton 27 August 1981

TRANSLATIONS
by Brian Friel
Director Donald McWhinnie
Lyttelton 6 August 1981

ON THE RAZZLE
by Tom Stoppard
adapted from Johann Nestroy
Director Peter Wood
Lyttelton 22 September 1981

CARITAS
by Arnold Wesker
Director John Madden
Cottesloe 7 October 1981

THE HYPOCHONDRIAC
by Molière
translated by Alan Drury
Director Michael Bogdanov
Olivier 22 November 1981

THE ORESTEIA
the trilogy by Aeschylus
in a version by Tony Harrison
Director Peter Hall
music by Harrison Birtwistle
Olivier 28 November 1981

TRUE WEST
by Sam Shepard
Director John Schlesinger
Cottesloe 10 December 1981

THE SECOND MRS TANQUERAY
by Arthur W Pinero
Director Michael Rudman
Lyttelton 15 December 1981

1982

SUMMER

by Edward Bond

Director Edward Bond

Cottesloe 27 January 1982

GUYS AND DOLLS
based on a story and characters
of Damon Runyon
music & lyrics by Frank Loesser
book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows
Director Richard Eyre
choreography by David Toguri
MD Tony Britten
Olivier 9 March 1982

THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG
by Heinrich von Kleist
in a version by John James
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 22 April 1982

UNCLE VANYA
by Anton Chekhov
in a version by Pam Gems
Director Michael Bogdanov
Lyttelton 18 May 1982

DON QUIXOTE
a play by Keith Dewhurst from
the novel by Miguel de Cervantes
Director Bill Bryden
Olivier 18 June 1982

THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
by John Gay
Director Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 1 July 1982

DANTON'S DEATH
by Georg Büchner
in a version by Howard Brenton
Director Peter Gill
Olivier 21 July 1982

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by James & Tania Stern with W H Auden
Director Michael Bogdanov & Justin Greene
Cottesloe 2 August (Mobile) 1982

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde
Director Peter Hall
Lyttelton 16 September 1982

THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
by Thomas Kyd
Director Michael Bogdanov
Cottesloe 22 September 1982

SCHWEYK IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by Susan Davies
music by Hanns Eisler
Dir: Richard Eyre
Olivier 23 September 1982

WAY UPSTREAM
by Alan Ayckbourn
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Lyttelton 4 October 1982

OTHER PLACES
Family Voices, Victoria Station, A Kind of Alaska
by Harold Pinter
Director Peter Hall
Cottesloe 14 October 1982

MAJOR BARBARA
by Bernard Shaw
Director Peter Gill
Lyttelton 27 October 1982

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by William Shakespeare
Director Bill Bryden
Cottesloe 25 November 1982

1983

A MAP OF THE WORLD

by David Hare

Director David Hare

Lyttelton 27 January 1983

KICK FOR TOUCH
by Peter Gill
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 15 February 1983

SMALL CHANGE
by Peter Gill
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 23 February 1983

LORENZACCIO
by Alfred de Musset
translated & adapted by John Fowles
Director Michael Bogdanov
Olivier 15 March 1983

THE RIVALS
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Director Peter Wood
Olivier 12 April 1983

THE TROJAN WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE
by Jean Giraudoux
English version by Christopher Fry
Director Harold Pinter
Lyttelton 10 May 1983

MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
Director Michael Bogdanov with Justin Greene & Alan Cohen
Cottesloe 16 May (Mobile) 1983

INNER VOICES
by Eduardo de Filippo
translated by N F Simpson
Director Mike Ockrent
Lyttelton 16 June 1983

THE FAWN
by John Marston
Director Giles Block
Cottesloe 14 July 1983

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
by George S Kaufman & Moss Hart
Director Michael Bogdanov
Lyttelton 4 August 1983

TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD
by Christopher Hampton
Director Peter Gill
Olivier 1 September 1983

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
by David Mamet
Director Bill Bryden
Cottesloe 21 September 1983

JEAN SEBERG
composer Marvin Hamlisch
lyricist Christopher Adler
dramatist Julian Barry
Director Peter Hall
Olivier 1 December 1983

CINDERELLA
adapted by Bill Bryden, Trevor Ray & the Company
Director Bill Bryden
Lyttelton 15 December 1983

1984

STRIDER - THE STORY OF A HORSE

by Mark Rozovsky from a story by Tolstoy

in a version by Peter Tegel

Director Michael Bogdanov

Cottesloe 26 January 1984

SAINT JOAN
by Bernard Shaw
Director Ronald Eyre
Olivier 16 February 1984

VENICE PRESERV'D
by Thomas Otway
Director Peter Gill
Lyttelton 12 April 1984

ANIMAL FARM
by George Orwell
stage adaptation by Peter Hall
Lyrics by Adrian Mitchell,
Music by Richard Peaslee
Cottesloe 25 April 1984

ANTIGONE
by Sophocles
translated by C A Trypanis
Director John Burgess & Peter Gill
Cottesloe 17 May 1984

GOLDEN BOY
by Clifford Odets
Director Bill Bryden
Lyttelton 22 May 1984

MANDRAGOLA
by Niccolo Machiavelli
translated by Wallace Shawn
Director David Gilmore
Olivier 14 June 1984

ANTON CHEKHOV
devised by Michael Pennington
Director Michael Pennington
Cottesloe 5 July 1984

WILD HONEY
by Anton Chekhov
in a version by Michael Frayn
Director Christopher Morahan
Lyttelton 19 July 1984

A LITTLE HOTEL ON THE SIDE
by Georges Feydeau & Maurice Desvallières
translated by John Mortimer
Director Jonathan Lynn
Olivier 9 August 1984

FOOL FOR LOVE
by Sam Shepard
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 4 October 1984

ROUGH CROSSING
by Tom Stoppard
freely adapted from Molnár's Play at the Castle
Director Peter Wood
Lyttelton 30 October 1984

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
by Oliver Goldsmith
Director Giles Block
Lyttelton 8 November 1984

THE ANCIENT MARINER
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem
adapted by Michael Bogdanov
Director Michael Bogdanov
Olivier 14 November 1984

CORIOLANUS
by William Shakespeare
Dir Peter Hall
Olivier 15 December 1984

1985

DOOMSDAY

presented with The Nativity and The Passion

under the title of

THE MYSTERIES

from medieval mystery plays

version by the Company with Tony Harrison

Director Bill Bryden

Cottesloe 19 January 1985

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
by Nikolai Gogol
in a new version by Adrian Mitchell
Director Richard Eyre
Olivier 31 January 1985

THE ROAD TO MECCA
by Athol Fugard
Director Athol Fugard
Lyttelton 27 February 1985

MARTINE
by Jean-Jacques Bernard
translated by John Fowles
Director Peter Hall
Lyttelton 20 April 1985

PRAVDA
by Howard Brenton & David Hare
Director David Hare
Olivier 2 May 1985

THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
by John Webster
Director Philip Prowse
Lyttelton 4 July 1985

A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL
by Alan Ayckbourn
Director Alan Ayckbourn
Olivier 1 August 1985

THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND
by Tom Stoppard
Director Tom Stoppard
and
THE CRITIC
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Director Sheila Hancock
Olivier 12 September 1985

FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS
THE MURDERERS by Daniel Mornin
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 23 September 1985
TRUE DARE KISS by Debbie Horsfield
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 3 October 1985
AS I LAY DYING by Peter Gill from William Faulkner
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 15 October 1985
COMMAND OR PROMISE by Debbie Horsfield
Director John Burgess
Cottesloe 24 October 1985
FIVE PLAY BILL:
A Twist of Lemon by Alex Renton
Director Peter Gill
Sunday Morning by Rod Smith
Director John Burgess
In the Blue by Peter Gill
Director Peter Gill
Bouncing by Rosemary Wilton
Director Peter Gill
Up for None by Mick Mahoney
Director Peter Gill
Cottesloe 6 November 1985
THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
edited by Peter Cox & the Company
Director John Burgess & Peter Gill
Cottesloe 14 November 1985