A series of 13 programmes which tell the story of the theatre.
Written and presented by Ronald Harwood
9:A World Turned Upside-Down.
The spirit of revolution and romanticism which swept through Europe into the 19th century - these two forces were indeed to turn the world upside-down.
Sturm und Drang, literally 'Storm and Stress', and Schiller's overpowering play The Robbers, begin this story of the Romantic movement in the theatre which produced melodrama, barn-storming actors and the actor-manager. But a dramatic time-bomb was ticking away - startlingly modern, Buchner's Woyzeck was not performed for 80 years. It was the birth of realism and the modern anti-hero.
Those taking part include: Barry Foster , Christopher Timothy , Marion Bailey and the Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar
Film editor SUSAN SPIVEY
Executive producer RICHARD CAWSTON Producer HARRY HASTINGS
Directed by MISHA WILLIAMS
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 270