Hidden Corners: inside the National Theatre

Beneath the stage in the Cottesloe, the smallest of the National's three theatres Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

A view of the London Eye from a balcony at the National Theatre. The theatre building, designed by Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley, opened in 1976 Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

Cricket in the Cottesloe scene store. For the photographs in this exhibition, Miriam Nabarro used a Hasselblad camera made in 1974 Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

The 'Yellow Brick Road' corridor leading to backstage dressing rooms and workshops Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

A colour wall in the theatre's own dye workroom, part of its extensive costume department Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

Rolls of posters from more than three decades of past performances in the theatre archive Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

A rocking horse is just one of the unusual objects in the theatre's vast prop store Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

The 'Drum Revolve' beneath the stage of the Olivier theatre – a revolving mechanism five storeys high that contains several elevators and enables exciting effects such as towers or boats rising out of the stage Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

War Horse puppets, made by the Handspring workshop in Cape Town, which have just arrived for assembly at the NT and are housed in specially constructed stables Photograph: Miriam Nabarro

Stairway leading from the Deck area on the theatre's upper levels Photograph: Miriam Nabarro