Work With The National Theatre
In 1985 Thelma Holt joined the National Theatre as Head of Touring and Commercial Exploitation. She was responsible for the following NT West End transfers: "A Chorus of Disapproval", "The Petition", "Brighton Beach Memoirs", "Three Men on a Horse", "A View from the Bridge". She was also responsible for major tours of National Theatre productions to: Paris, Vienna, Zurich, North America, Moscow, Tbilisi, Tokyo, Epidaurus.
Thelma Holt produced INTERNATIONAL 87, a series of four visits to the National Theatre by international theatre companies: "The Hairy Ape" by Eugene O'Neill directed by Peter Stein (production from the Schaubuhne, Berlin), "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg and "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare both directed by Ingmar Bergman (Productions from the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm), "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Medea" by Euripides both directed by Yukio Ninagawa (the Ninagawa Company from Tokyo), "Tomorrow was War" by the Mayakovsky Theatre Company from Moscow. For this international season Thelma Holt received the Olivier/Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre and a special award from Drama Magazine.
In 1998 she co-produced "The Fairy Queen" by Purcell, directed by Adrian Noble for the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Thelma Holt produced INTERNATIONAL 89, a second series of four visit to the National Theatre by international theatre companies: "Tango Varsoviano" by Teatro del Sur (Buenos Aires), "The Grapes of Wrath" by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago), "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov from the Moscow Art Theatre, "Suicide for Love" the return of the Ninagawa Theatre Company.
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