- Preface Matthew Tynan
- Foreword Tom Stoppard
- Introduction
1945
- The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder, with Vivien Leigh)
- Oedipus Rex and The Critic (with Laurence Olivier)
- Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (with Ralph Richardson)
1946
- King Lear (with Laurence Olivier)
1951
- Profile of Vivien Leigh
1952
- King Lear (with Donald Wolfit)
- The Wandering Jew (with Donald Wolfit)
- Guys and Dolls (Frank Loesser)
1954
- Separate Tables (Terence Rattigan)
- ‘Apathy’ (The ‘Loamshire’ Play)
- The Immoralist (André Gide)
- ‘Dead Language’ (The lack of new writing)
- ‘Indirections’ (Directing)
1955
- ‘Big Three’ (Comédie Française, Compagnie Renaud Barrault, TNP)
- ‘Convalescence’ (Bad Drama)
- Serious Charge (Phillip King, censorship)
- Volpone (Theatre Workshop)
- The Lesson (Eugene Ionesco)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams, New York)
- Twelfth Night (with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, directed by John Gielgud)
- Tiger at the Gates (Jean Giraudoux)
- Moby Dick (Orson Welles)
- Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
- ‘Post Mortem’
- Ondine (Jean Giraudoux)
- Bed Bug (Mayakovsky) (Moscow)
- ‘The Russian Way’ (Moscow)
- Anniversary Waltz (Chodorov and Fields)
1956
- ‘Payment Deferred’ (The need for a National Theatre)
- ‘Art for Our Sake’ (Propaganda Plays)
- ‘The Vice of Versing’ (Dramatic Poetry)
- The Threepenny Opera (Brecht, Royal Court)
- Othello (with Richard Burton and John Neville)
- Tabitha (Ridely and Borer, an Tynan demolition)
- ‘Young Lion’s Den’ (Encore magazine)
- A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller)
- The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), The Mulberry Bush (Angus Wilson, Royal Court)
- The Chalk Garden (Enid Bagnold, with Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft)
- ‘Manhattan and the Musical’ (New York)
- Look Back in Anger (John Osborne, Royal Court)
- The Quare Fellow (Brendan Behan, directed by Joan Littlewood)
- The Family Reunion (T. S. Eliot, directed by Peter Brook)
- ‘A Critic of the Critic’ (Theatre Criticism)
- ‘Hindsight View’ (End-of-season review)
- ‘Welsh Wizardry’ (Berliner Ensemble)
- Timon of Athens (with Ralph Richardson), A River Breeze
- ‘Dodging the Ban’ (Theatre Censorship)
- The Children’s Hour (Lillian Hellman)
- ‘Dramatic Capital of Europe’ (Berlin)
- ‘Berlin Postscript’
- A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller)
- Much Ado About Nothing (directed by John Gielgud)
- Nude with Violin (Noel Coward), The Bald Prima Donna, The New Tenant (Eugene Ionesco)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Goodrich and Hackett)
- The Country Wife (directed by George Devine, with Joan Plowright)
- ‘Backwards and Forwards’ (End-of-year review)
1957
- ‘The Way Ahead’ (The Method)
- The Life of Galileo (Berlin)
- ‘A Matter of Life’ (The Observer Play Competition)
- ‘In All Directions’ (Director’s Theatre’)
- The Master of Santiago (Henry de Montherlant, with Donald Wolfit)
- Epitaph for George Dillon (John Osborne and Anthony Creighton)
- A Hatful of Rain (Michael Gazzo, with and directed by Sam Wanamaker)
- The Iron Duchess (William Douglas-Home)
- The Entertainer (John Osborne, with Laurence Olivier)
- Tea and Sympathy (Robert Anderson, censorship)
- ‘Out of Touch’ (John Whiting)
- ‘Closing the Gaps’ (English Stage Company)
1958
- ‘The Court Revolution’ (Royal Court)
- ‘Ionesco: Man of Destiny’
1959
- ‘Look Behind the Anger’ (End-of-year review)
1960
- ‘What the Crystal Ball Foretells’ (Looking Ahead to the 1960s)
- ‘Three for the Seesaw’ (The Deadlock of English Theatre)
- ‘Dead Spot in Drama’ (Satire)
1961
- ‘The Breakthrough That Broke Down’ (Retrospect on New Wave Drama)
1964
- The National Theatre: A Speech to the Royal Society of Arts
1965
- ‘The Royal Smut-Hound’
- Epilogue
Topics covered by this book
- Pauken und Trompeten (drama) • review of 1956 Berliner Ensemble tour to Palace Theatre
- Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (drama) • review of Berliner Ensemble production at the Paris Drama Festival in 1955, and of the Berliner Ensemble at the Palace Theatre in 1956
- Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (drama) • review of Joan Littlewood's 1955 production, and of 1956 Berliner Ensemble tour to the Palace Theatre
- A Touch of the Sun (drama) • review of 1958 production
- The Tenth Chance (drama) • review of 1958 Royal Court production
- Variation of a Theme (drama) • review of 1958 production
- A Taste of Honey (drama) • review of 1958 production directed by Joan Littlewood
- Krapp’s Last Tape (drama) • review of 1958 production
- The Hostage (drama) • review of 1958 production directed by Joan Littlewood
- The Last Joke (drama) • review of 1960 production
- I’m Talking About Jerusalem (drama) • review of 1960 production
- Roots (drama) • review of 1960 production
- Chicken Soup with Barley (drama) • review of 1958 production
- The Caretaker (drama) • review of 1960 production
- Beyond the Fringe (drama) • review of 1961 production
- Luther (drama) • review of 1961 production with Albert Finney
- The Chances (drama) • review of 1962 Chichester production with Laurence Olivier at Chichester
- The Broken Heart (drama) • review of 1962 Chichester production with Laurence Olivier
- Chips with Everything (drama) • review of 1962 production
- Дядя Ваня (drama) • review of 1962 Chichester production with Laurence Olivier and Michael Redgrave
- Macbeth (drama) • review of 1952 production with Ralph Richardson, directed by John Gielgud
- Macbeth (drama) • review of 1955 production with Laurence Olivier
- Richard II (drama) • review of 1955 Old Vic / Theatre Workshop production
- Cymbeline (drama) • review of Peter Hall's 1957 production
- Titus Andronicus (drama) • reviews of Peter Brook's production with Laurence Olivier from both 1955 and 1957
- Richard III (drama) • review of 1944 production with Laurence Olivier
- Hamlet (drama) • review of 1944 production with John Gielgud and two reviews of 1955 production directed by Peter Brook (one on tour in Russia, one at the Phoenix)
- My Fair Lady (drama) • review of 1958 production
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