biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Stage director, born in London, UK. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow (1954–60), and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1960, where he became associate director (1964–91) and then advisory director. He wrote and directed The Hollow Crown (1961), an anthology about English monarchs, and is the author of Playing Shakespeare (1984), based on the television series he made in 1982. In 1990 he wrote The War That Never Ends for BBC2. Tantalus, a 10-part epic drama based on the Trojan Wars, was produced in 2000 by the Denver Center Theatre Company in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and directed by Peter Hall. |
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