Over the past half century, there have been thousands of performances from tens of thousands of actors, singers, musicians, dancers, playwrights, poets, comedians. The roll call of those appearing at Chichester Festival Theatre is a Who’s Who of contemporary theatre and film, from Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright in the 1960s to Patrick Stewart and Kim Cattrall fifty years later. And not just actors and actresses, but hundreds of dazzling directors have collaborated with thousands of composers and writers and choreographers, lighting and sound and set designers, wardrobe mistresses and wig masters, all working together to bring the best of classic and contemporary drama to life on the stage.

Written by the international bestselling author, Kate Mosse – and based on interviews with many of the key people who have made CFT what it is today – Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty is a decade-by-decade celebration, in words and pictures, of one of Britain’s most important and best loved theatres.

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