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.
Jonathan Holloway (artistic director) Western Australia, Royal de Luxe designed a story that drew as much from Nyoongar culture as it did from the legacy and myth of the ANZACs. In January 2015 Holloway was appointed artistic director of Australia's Melbourne International Arts Festival. Holloway lives in Melbourne with his wife Jenny Vila and two children Jonathan Holloway (artistic director) Jonathan Holloway (born 15 January 1970) is an artistic director and theatre director. Originally from Sheffield in the north of England, he is currently the artistic director of Melbourne Festival. Previously he established the National Theatre's "Watch This Space" Festival, was artistic director and