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Reintroducing: The Black Plays Archive
The writer Winsome Pinnock during rehearsals for her play, Leave Taking, in 1995 - holding a hot drink whilst someone points a pencil at a script

Reintroducing: The Black Plays Archive

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Archive Unboxed: The House of Bernarda Alba and translation

Archive Unboxed: The House of Bernarda Alba and translation

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Founding the National Theatre

The movement to found the National Theatre

Founded in 1963 with Laurence Olivier as its first Director, the movement to found the National Theatre was over 100 years in the making.

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Archive Unboxed: Peter O'Toole in Hamlet, 1963
Actor Frank Finlay as Gravedigger and Peter O'Toole as Hamlet, holding a skull, on stage at the National Theatre, 1963

Archive Unboxed: Peter O'Toole in Hamlet, 1963

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