Editing Royal National Theatre (section)

====Dorfman Theatre====
Named after [[Lloyd Dorfman]] (philanthropist and chairman of [[Travelex Group]]),<ref>{{cite news|author=Brown, Mark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/oct/28/national-theatre-dorfman-donation |title=National Theatre's Cottesloe venue to be renamed after £10m donor|access-date= 3 October 2022|work=[[The Guardian]]|date= 28 October 2010}}</ref> the Dorfman is "the smallest, the barest and the most potentially flexible of the National Theatre houses . . . a dark-walled room" with an audience capacity of 400.<ref name="Dorfman">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/venue/dorfman-theatre |title= Dorfman Theatre|website= Royal National Theatre|access-date = 3 October 2022}}</ref> It was formerly known as the Cottesloe Theatre (named after [[John Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe|Lord Cottesloe]], Chairman of the South Bank Theatre Board). The Cottesloe was the smallest of the National's three theatres and, but for pressure exerted by [[Peter Brook]] and [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]], might easily have been omitted. It sits below the stage of the Olivier in a space initially planned for a third theatre which had been cancelled earlier in the design process.  It was designed by [[Iain Mackintosh]] and Theatre Projects Consultants.<ref>{{cite news |title=Backstage: How the National reinvented theatre |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/backstage-how-the-national-reinvented-theatre |access-date=28 December 2024 |publisher=The Stage |date=24 October 2016}}</ref> It was the most influential of the modern 'courtyard' theatres, with its extremely simple, rectangular form and the audience on three shallow tiers, it could be readily adapted to proscenium, end stage, thrust, in-the-round, traverse or promenade form. The Cottesloe closed its doors on 23 February 2013 to undergo major refurbishment and reopened as the Dorfman Theatre on 30 September 2014 as part of the National's [[#NT Future|NT Future]] redevelopment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Royal National Theatre |url=https://database.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/3149-royal-national-theatre |website=The Theatres Trust |access-date=28 December 2024 |ref=3149}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Why small is now big in theatreland |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21967604 |access-date=28 December 2024 |publisher=BBC |date=1 April 2013}}</ref>

The enhanced<ref name="Dorfman" /> theatre reopened in September 2014 under its new name.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/nationals-dorfman-theatre-to-open-with-fatboy-slim-musical|title=National's Dorfman Theatre to open with Fatboy Slim musical|work= [[The Stage]]|date = 2 July 2014|access-date = 3 October 2022|author= Quinn, Michael}}</ref>