Learning on ScreenSheffield Theatre
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Britain is experiencing a theatre boom - eight new theatres have been built this year. Leading Shakespearean actor Ian McKellen interviewed by Michele Brown find the new Sheffield Theatre with its open stage ‘the best in the world’. Others may disagree, but there is no doubt that theatre in Britain is more lively and experimental than ever before.
- Researcher Comments
- The theatre is the Crucible Theatre.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Performing arts
- Written sources
- The National Archives INF 6 /1276 - used for synopsis
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
- COI Reference
- MI 936/670
- Credits:
-
- Presenter
- Alberto Diaz Lastra
- Director
- Andrew Quicke
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Producer
- Graham Woodford
- Support services
- Margaret Benton
- Presenter
- Michele Brown
- Cutter
- T. Wedgwood
- Camera
- United Motion Picture (London) Ltd
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 21 Stephen Street
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