Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it had been. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting skills from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. These were based on functions by the worlds’ leading authors, included in this Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. They are but some of whose business we shall end up being keeping once we raise the drape on our 1st instalment of theatrical background.