Kenneth Tynan theatre critic until mid-1963 when he joined the National Theatre. In 1963, Laurence Olivier became the British National Theatre Company's first artistic director. Tynan had been highly dismissive of Olivier's achievements as artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, which had opened in 1962, but he recommended himself for the role of literary manager. Olivier was initially outraged by Tynan's presumption but Olivier's wife, Joan Plowright, convinced him that Tynan would be an asset at the National Theatre Company, then based at the Old Vic theatre. When he became the National Theatre's literary manager, Tynan ceased to be the theatre
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