A family day at the beach. There's a song, an argument, a dash across the white sand and into the high rolling waves. We're in Cape Town and bDavid Lanb is ten years old. Cut to 1969 and, visiting London fresh out of high school, he interviews theatre luminaries Sybil Thorndike, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Nunn, Paul Schofield before heading home to join the South African army. Now it's 1999. We're at the Young Vic where David is interviewed to be artistic director, a job he'd do for eighteen years, ensuring it's flowering into a great world theatre. There's a redesign to be imagined, money to be raised, shows to be staged. And when the doors reopen in 2006 we meet the extraordinary artists he draws in Ivo Van Hove, Jude Law, Richard Jones, Gillian Anderson, Patrice Chereau, Katy Mitchell, Stephen Daldry, the Isango Ensemble, iYermai, iThe Jungle, The Inheritance.i We travel to Peter Brook's Paris, to Iceland in pursuit of a circus iRomeo and Julieti, to Lithuania in search of his great grand