Editing Royal National Theatre (section)

====Temporary Theatre====
The Temporary Theatre, formerly called The Shed, was a 225-seat black box theatre which opened in April 2013 and featured new works; it closed in May 2016, following the refurbishment of the Dorfman Theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2016/national-theatre-reveal-closing-date-for-temporary-theatre/|title=National Theatre reveals closing date for Temporary Theatre |date=19 April 2016|work=The Stage}}</ref>

In 2015 British artist [[Carl Randall]] painted a portrait of actress [[Katie Leung]] standing in front of The Shed as part of the artist's "London Portraits" series, where he asked various cultural figures to choose a place in London for the backdrop of their portraits.<ref name="London Portraits by Carl Randall - Royal Drawing School">{{citation | title= Carl Randall's "London Portraits" on display in National Portrait Gallery. | publisher= The Royal Drawing School, London | year= 2016 | url= http://rdsalumni.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/carl-randalls-london-portraits-on.html | access-date= 20 March 2021 }}</ref><ref name="Actress Katie Leung and The Shed">{{citation | title= Actress Katie Leung and The Shed. | publisher= Carl Randall's artist website | year= 2016 | url= http://www.carlrandall.com/london-portraits/actress-katie-leung-portrait | access-date= 20 March 2021 | archive-date= 20 March 2021 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210320102305/https://www.carlrandall.com/london-portraits/ | url-status= live }}</ref> Leung explained she chose The Shed as her backdrop because she performed there in the 2013 play ''The World of Extreme Happiness'', and also because "... it's a temporary theatre, it's not permanent, and I wanted to make it permanent in the portrait".<ref name="London Portraits - Video Documentary">{{citation | title= Carl Randall's London Portraits – Video Documentary. | publisher= The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation London | year= 2016 | url= http://www.dajf.org.uk/news/carl-randalls-london-portraits-video-documentary | access-date= 20 March 2021 | archive-date= 10 August 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160810090712/http://www.dajf.org.uk/news/carl-randalls-london-portraits-video-documentary | url-status= live }}</ref><ref name="London Portraits - Carl Randall">{{citation | title= London Portraits – Video Documentary. | publisher= Youtube | year= 2016 | url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNdLUQVhAzg | access-date= 20 March 2021 | archive-date= 20 March 2021 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210320102542/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNdLUQVhAzg | url-status= live }}</ref>[[File:19 4 2018 Royal National Theatre axis view.jpg|thumb|Axis view of Royal National Theatre to Olivier Theatre fly tower]]