Shakespeare Masterpiece The Merchant of Venice
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China.org.cn, June 6, 2008
Time: 2008/7/12-2008/7/13
Venue: NCPA-Theatre
Price: 60/100/180/280/380/480 yuan
Performed by The National Youth Theatre of UK
The National Youth Theatre is one of the UK's premier youth arts organizations.
Founded in 1956 the National Youth Theatre (NYT) is now a hotbed of talent that has produced many of the best known names in the business including Sir Ben Kingsley, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Helen Mirren, Kate Adie, Daniel Craig, Timothy Dalton, Daniel Day-Lewis, Timothy Spall, Michael York and Orlando Bloom.
The NYT was founded by an English Teacher Michael Croft who taught at Alleyns School in Dulwich. Croft left Alleyns in 1955 to take up a full time writing career. In 1956 he was approached by a group of boys from Alleyns who persuaded him to continue to produce plays with them outside school. Croft agreed and the Youth Theatre was born in the summer of 1956. Despite having no financial backing Croft eventually recruited from schools across London and by 1959 was recruiting from across the south of England. It became a national organization in 1960 and in 1961 was registered as a charity under the name National Youth Theatre.