As Arts Correspondent of the
Guardian Terry Coleman covered the National Theatre under Olivier and Peter Hall. He then strayed into political journalism, interviewing eight British prime ministers and covering American presidential elections, but in 2005 returned to his old patch and wrote the authorised biography of Laurence Olivier.
The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried...
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