13 June 2019
ProQuest has announced the launch of its new National Theatre Collection, a collaboration with the UK’s National Theatre to offer a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive. The video content will be launched in September and will continue to grow. As a supplement to the filmed productions, digitised archival materials such as photographs, scripts, designs, programmes, posters and more will be available in the National Theatre Collection and in ProQuest’s Theatre and Drama Premium Collection.
The National Theatre Collection will feature a wide range of works regularly studied in secondary and higher education, such as:
- literary adaptations, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
- Greek classics such as Medea by Euripides, in a contemporary adaptation by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell with Helen McCrory in the title role
- vibrant modern stagings of Shakespeare, such as Twelfth Night, directed by Simon Godwin, with Tamsin Greig in the role of Malvolia
- 20th-century classics such as Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs and the Young Vic’s production of Lorca’s Yerma, adapted and directed by Simon Stone with Billie Piper in the title role
- comedies such as She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, directed by Jamie Lloyd with a cast including Cush Jumbo and Katherine Kelly, and One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and featuring James Corden's Tony Award-winning performance