Theatre of the United Kingdom rise of satire in 1960s Britain. The Chichester Festival Theatre was Britain's first modern thrust stage theatre. It was inspired by the Festival Theatre of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival launched by Tyrone Guthrie in the Canadian city of Stratford, Ontario. The inaugural Artistic Director of the Chichester Festival was Sir Laurence Olivier, and it was at Chichester that the first National Theatre company was formed. Chichester's productions would transfer to the National Theatre's base at the Old Vic in London. The Theatres Act 1968 abolished the system of censorship of the stage that had existed in Great Britain since 1737.
Paul Unwin (director) "Shameless" (Company Pictures, Channel 4) and "Breathless". "Breathless" screened on ITV in Autumn 2013 and in the US in 2014. As a theatre director his work includes ""The Man Who Had All the Luck"" by Arthur Miller at the Bristol Old Vic and the Young Vic, "The Misanthrope" at the Bristol Old Vic and the Royal National Theatre, "The Master Builder" at the Bristol Old Vic", Hamlet", "Othello", "In Times Like These" by Jeremy Brock. His artistic directorship of the Bristol Old Vic was a remarkable period and launched the careers of several of Britain’s foremost actors and directors. As