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.
Bill Mitchell (artistic director) In 2006, he was made an honorary Fellow of Falmouth University. Mitchell won the Best Director award at the Theatre Awards UK in 2011 for "The Passion", a joint production between National Theatre Wales and Wildworks. In 2015, Mitchell worked with Lost Gardens of Heligan on a show called "100: The Day Our World Changed" to commemorate local people who died in WW1. Mitchell was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, but continued to work up to his death on "Wolf’s Child" which was performed at Trelowarren Estate in Cornwall in July 2017. Bill Mitchell (artistic director) Bill Mitchell (2 December