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Post by theatreliker on Oct 25, 2016 21:49:59 GMT
Howard Davies has died. All My Sons remains one of the best productions I've ever seen.
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Post by joem on Oct 25, 2016 22:14:22 GMT
Howard Davies has died. All My Sons remains one of the best productions I've ever seen. This story is nowhere on the net. You are sure? |
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Post by DuchessConstance on Oct 26, 2016 0:22:14 GMT
Awful lot of celebs and big theatre types tweeting about it, including a lot of people who knew or worked with him. So I assume it sadly must be true.  |
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Post by Jan on Oct 26, 2016 2:56:19 GMT
Howard Davies was a great director. One of the best things I've ever seen was his production of The Time of your Life by William Saroyan which made it look like a masterpiece (it isn't). Though he was at the RSC for years he directed very little Shakespeare, his best was a brilliant Crimean War Troilus and Cressida.
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Post by caa on Oct 26, 2016 6:20:22 GMT
Really sad news, agree with Jan, a truly great director two shows he directed at the National that stand out for me would be Mourning Becomes Electra and Flight.
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Post by loureviews on Oct 26, 2016 7:06:04 GMT
Sad news. A very good director.
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Post by Snciole on Oct 26, 2016 9:39:08 GMT
Whats On Stage reporting it based on people knowing him mentioning it on Twitter. Very sad, I gathered from comments on here that he had been ill. I'd seen a lot of his post 2011 stuff and I think I was in the minority who enjoyed Hapgood!
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Post by rumbledoll on Oct 26, 2016 10:08:47 GMT
Oh my. Sad beyond any words. Great memories of seeing his fine direction of The Last of Haussmans & The Herd, among many.
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Post by emsworthian on Oct 26, 2016 10:40:54 GMT
I saw his production of "An Enemy of the People" at Chichester Theatre in April this year and really enjoyed it. He also did an excellent production of Somerset Maugham's "For Services Rendered" at the theatre last year.
I discovered his work fairly recently and now I wish I'd seen a lot more of it.
RIP
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Post by bordeaux on Oct 26, 2016 10:45:04 GMT
Very sad news indeed. He has been so good for so long and was still directing excellent stuff: I was looking forward to Wild Honey and last year both Hapgood and Temple were impressive. He seemed equally at home with new writing and classics. Amongst productions that stand out in my memory: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the National with that amazing cast in the late 80s, Philistines more recently at the National, The Shaughraun at the National, The Iceman Cometh with Spacey at the Almeida, the original Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2016 11:32:09 GMT
No mention of The White Guard yet? That's going to be the Howard Davies play I carry in my heart for the rest of my life, I reckon. A terribly sad loss.
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Post by Snciole on Oct 26, 2016 12:09:10 GMT
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Post by peggs on Oct 26, 2016 13:21:21 GMT
What a loss, always felt secure to see something he had directed as you knew it would be good. Damn 2016 and the deaths.
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Post by Latecomer on Oct 26, 2016 13:36:30 GMT
No mention of The White Guard yet? That's going to be the Howard Davies play I carry in my heart for the rest of my life, I reckon. A terribly sad loss. Agreed, this is the one that has stayed with me and made me seek out his productions from then on.... |
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Post by lynette on Oct 26, 2016 14:34:32 GMT
His name equals quality.
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Post by Jan on Oct 26, 2016 17:48:05 GMT
Just checking I find I saw 21 productions by him starting with a rather good Brechtian take on Henry VIII at the RSC with Richard Griffiths and John Thaw in 1983 - the stagehands were on strike and it was played with no set which was entirely appropriate. I saw it again later with the set and it didn't add much. Some great productions in there, the original Les Liaisons, Caryl Churchill's Softcops, his later work on Gorky and Russian plays. A great loss.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 0:10:46 GMT
It's his Bulgakov productions that impressed me the most, Flight and The White Guard.
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Post by peggs on Oct 27, 2016 18:05:53 GMT
Yes he seemed a particularly good match for russian plays.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 27, 2016 20:15:56 GMT
With Hytner my joint most watched Director
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Post by Polly1 on Oct 28, 2016 10:22:17 GMT
Digital Theatre have made available his production of All My Sons free to download this weekend, using code HDALLMYSONS .A very nice gesture.
Missing The White Guard is high up on my list of regrets, but enjoyed many of his other productions.
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Post by bordeaux on Oct 28, 2016 12:34:00 GMT
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Post by peggs on Oct 31, 2016 12:48:50 GMT
Digital Theatre have made available his production of All My Sons free to download this weekend, using code HDALLMYSONS .A very nice gesture. Missing The White Guard is high up on my list of regrets, but enjoyed many of his other productions. Thanks for posting this Polly1, I'd seen it was available but couldn't find the free code until I came here, what a great production. |
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