Director
Misha Williams
DIRECTOR
Keith Cheetham
Michael Elliott
Bob Lockyer
William Slater
Michael Bogdanov
Oleg Efremov
Patrick Garland
Peter Hall
Karolos Koun
Michael Langham
Christopher Morahan
Stars (in credits order)
Ronald Harwood
Self - Presenter
Ian Saynor
English Excerpt: The Seagull
Peter Gale
Quotations Reader
Self - Director, National Theatre
James Hall
Extract from Black-Ey'd Susan
Judith Paris
Extract from Le Cid
Carl Forgione
Extract from The Changeling
Christopher Timothy
Excerpts: The 1980 York Cycle of Mystery Plays
Ann Payot
Brian Tully
Extract from Bussy D'Ambois
Terence McGinity
Extract from The Robbers
Jennie Franks
Daniel Massey
Excerpt from Man & Superman
Stuart Organ
Extract from Woyzeck
Cate Fowler
Extract from The Country Wife
Paul Rogers
Excerpts: The Dresser
John Gielgud
Self - Actor
Frankie Howerd
Extracts: The Haunted House
Colleen Dewhurst
Extract Reader: A Long Day's Journey into Night
Michael Billington
Self - Theatre Critic
Peter Brook
Self - Theatre Director
Michael Hordern
Extract from Venice Preserved
Self - Director, 1980 York Mystery Cycle
Michael Meyer
Self - Translator
Jacques Scherer
Self - Professor of Theatre at the Sorbonne
Self - Artistic Director, Greek Art Theatre
Sam Wanamaker
Self
Alec McCowen
Paul Hardwick
John Graham
Quotations Speaker
Roger Planchon
Self - Director, Théâtre National Populaire, Lyon
Philip Compton
Edward Fox
Extracts: The Bacchae
Tim Woodward
Peter Jones
Robert Hale
Terence Stamp
Kenneth Colley
Extracts: A Month in the Country; The Playboy of the Western World; The Plough and the Stars
Colin Bennett
Claude Winter
Extract from Phèdre
Pauline Bushnell
Andrew Jackson
Zoë Wanamaker
Wendy Hiller
Extracts from Peer Gynt
Michael Elphick
Extract: The Harrowing of Hell
Melina Mercouri
Extracts: The Oresteia
Peter Woodthorpe
Anthony Bate
ACTOR
Illona Linthwaite
Barry Phillips
Paul Copley
David Ryall
Antony Sher
Ariane Mnouchkine
Self - Director, Theatre du Soleil, Paris
Taylor McAuley
Stephanie Beacham
Extract from The Relapse
Simon Callow
Extracts from The Versailles Impromptu; The Critique of the School for Wives; Tartuffe
Alan Jay Lerner
Self - Writer and Lyricist
Mary Maddox
Graham Rees
Benjamin Whitrow
Extracts from A Doll's House
Ciaran Madden
Edward Petherbridge
John Turner
Deddie Davies
Rusty Goffe
Alfred Hoffman
Extract from The Revenger's Tragedy
Charles Gray
Extracts from Hedda Gabler
Hugh Ross
Brian Protheroe
Jonathan Adams
John Moffatt
Donald Eccles
Extracts: Hamlet
Stephen J. Dean
Diana Quick
John Standing
Tim Brierley
Peter Walmsley
Judith Hilvert
Stanley Lebor
Madlena Nedeva
John Atterbury
Karen Craig
Susanna Bishop
Extracts from The Master Builder
Alan Duncan
Marion Bailey
Colin Blakely
Martin Potter
Suzi Arden
Nick Brimble
John Castle
John Wheatley
Peter Ellis
Reading from the 1572 Act of Parliament
Andrew Robertson
Marji Campi
Nicol Gordon
Penelope Wilton
James Fleet
Barry Foster
Edward Hardwicke
Rodney Cardiff
Geoffrey Hutchings
Leila Hoffman
Anthony O'Donnell
Clifton Jones
Howard Lee
Norman Caro
Extracts from The Lulu Plays
Robert Mill
Extract: Mediaeval play Mankind
Allison Dean
Yvonne Manners
Marie Collett
Extract from Women Beware Women
James Bryce
Carl Davies
Sally Cranfield
Terry O'Brien
Gordon Faith
Virginia Lester
Sandra Fox
Ken Parry
Peter Harding
Philip Wilde
Nicholas Fawcett
Cindy Shelley
Keith Hodiak
Ian Bamforth
Extract: Tudor Interlude Johan Johan
Trevor Cooper
Clive Arrindell
Excerpt from The Mayor of Zalamea
John Grantham
Michael Bryant
Carola Stewart
James Windsor
Ann Haydn
Sara Kestelman
Extract from The Way of the World
Ronald Pickup
Leslee Udwin
Irene Richard
Malcolm Tierney
Eli Wallach
Tom Courtenay
Norman
Marge Redmond
Stella Adler
Self - Head of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting
Rachel Gurney
Michael Frayn
Self - Playwright
José Quintero
Self - People's Artist of the USSR
Nelle Nugent
Self - Theatre Producer
Elizabeth Ireland McCann
Galina Kindinova
Self - Moscow Art Theatre
Susan Jeffrey
Dancer(uncredited)
Mark Chapman
Young Lover(uncredited)