A pdf resource for teachers, students, researchers or anyone interested in discovering more about the productions and plays staged by the National Theatre. 
This education workpack about Katie Mitchell’s production of Waves at the National Theatre in 2006 contains production images, information about staging Waves and the rehearsal process.

Shadow puppet prelude to Beauty and the Beast

Katie Mitchell is an English theatre director and an Associate of the National Theatre. She has been described as "the closest thing the British theatre has to an auteur". Her career started at the Kings Head Theatre, progressing to Paines Plough and the RSC. Her productions have been described as "distinguished by the intensity of the emotions, the realism of the acting, and the creation of a very distinctive world".  This collection offers an insight into Katie Mitchell’s processes. It features video exploring her approach to mixed media productions Waves and …some trace of her as well as films about her recent devised productions of Beauty and the Beast and Hansel and Gretel.