Madeleine Lloyd Webber, who is on the board of trustees, said: "It's a way of tipping our hat to the regional theatres and saying it's extremely important as a foundation to theatre in this country".
Indeed, the foundation myth of theatre is that image of his company, The Lord Chamberlain's Men, disassembling the planks and boards of their theatre in Shoreditch, ferrying it across the Thames and re-constituting it on Bankside as the re-born Globe.
But Stanislavski provided a route map for exploring what he called "that conscious road to the gates of the unconscious", which is the foundation of modern theatre.
Instead of A-levels, he did a theatre foundation course at Kidderminster College of Further Education, after which he began trying – and failing – to get into drama school.
If you look at the foundations of our theatre -- and they come from vaudeville, they come from, you know, American inventions of jazz, or the detective novel -- the idea of a department store is an American mentality -- very different from the Aristotelian development of plot through European sensibilities.
Fugard laid the foundation for a new theatre for his countrymen, one in which the terrible intricacies of their interactions would not be ignored.
"The year opened under the shadow of the Irish crisis," declared the 4 January edition of the Observer – although the main story was a heartfelt appeal for the foundation of a repertory theatre in London.
The company has been based at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm beside the river Spree in Berlin for almost 60 years, but the leader of the foundation that owns the theatre says he is cancelling the contract and evicting the company.
Van Dantzig was briefly involved in the foundation of Netherlands Dance Theatre, but when Gaskell retired in 1968 he took over as director of the Dutch National Ballet, initially sharing the role but taking sole responsibility in 1971 and remaining in the post for two decades.
