Britain’s new £10 million National Theatre—extending the concrete jungle of the Festival Hall arts complex eastwards along the South Bank—was to open in April. Now the opening has been cancelled again for at least six months (the opening date is still not definite) and the cost will be at least £12 million, the additional sum having been approved by Parliament, after heated debate, in November. But feelings about this 127-year-old-dream-nearly-come-true are mixed; there is concern and controversy amongst theatre workers, who are now asking questions like “who wants it?” and “who needs it?”