Paule is a Lighting Designer and an Associate Director of the National Theatre.  Recent work includes Angels in America, Follies (National Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night and Warhorse.  She has received 4 Olivier awards, 2 Tony Awards, a Helpmann Award and many Critics Circle Awards both in the UK and the US. Her opera designs have been seen all over the world.

Richard is one of the world’s leading theatre design consultants, a lighting designer, and an author. Richard helped to co-found the organisation, has received its Technician of the Year Award (2000) and is an elected Fellow of the ABTT.

Concrete Reality: Denys Lasdun and the Architecture of the National Theatre

A free exhibition explores the radical design of Lasdun’s masterpiece. Find it in the Olivier Circle Gallery on level 3  during building opening hours.

An accompanying book entitled Concrete Reality by Patrick Dillon is available from the NT Bookshop here:  https://shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk/concrete-reality.html

Copies of The National Theatre: A Place for Plays may also be purchased at the NT Bookshop.

Architecture tours of the NT are bookable here: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/architecture-tour

The National Theatre: A Place for Plays, presented by the Association of British Theatre Technicians in association with the National Theatre, was about Theatre and Architecture: a discussion, a confrontation, a misunderstanding or a collaboration?

This book contains a transcription of the discourse, debate and dissent that took place on the day.