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Post by bordeaux on Feb 4, 2020 16:04:19 GMT
Sad news. I am too young to have caught what sound like the glory days at the RSC in the 70s and 80s (the work with Alan Howard sounds amazing) but I loved his productions of Love's Labours Lost with Ralph Fiennes, SRB and Amanda Root and The Seagull with SRB as Konstantin, Susan Fleetwood and Roger Allam in about 1990. He sounds as though he's had a very satisfying post-big company career too with work at the Theatr Clwyd.
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Post by lynette on Feb 4, 2020 16:24:22 GMT
I saw 'the glory days' in Stratford including Merry Wives ! Of course I didn’t realise it was such at the time, only what I expected Shakespeare to be. Only now do I appreciate the influence of the director.....
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Post by learfan on Feb 5, 2020 0:50:26 GMT
He fell out with the RSC in the last few years, considering he was head either jointly or by himself for well over a decade, he seems overlooked. A v good director. RIP.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 0:01:05 GMT
Nearly all the other RSC Artistic Directors have been knighted. Shame Terry never got his.
Does anyone know why they went to joint Artistic Directors with him and Trevor Nunn before Terry ran the company on his own. I could have understood if it was for a year or so if Trevor was going to leave and Terry was going to take over but they did it jointly for 8 years.
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Post by learfan on Feb 7, 2020 17:35:46 GMT
Nearly all the other RSC Artistic Directors have been knighted. Shame Terry never got his. Does anyone know why they went to joint Artistic Directors with him and Trevor Nunn before Terry ran the company on his own. I could have understood if it was for a year or so if Trevor was going to leave and Terry was going to take over but they did it jointly for 8 years. Ive read that Peter Hall was trying to woo him to the Nash and the only way to keep him was giving him joint AD. Adrian Noble is still waiting for his K. |
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Post by marob on Feb 8, 2020 0:05:24 GMT
I live about 10 miles away from Theatr Clwyd, which is where I discovered my love of theatre during the last few years of his management. A touring production of The History Boys back in 2010 got me in the door to start with, but it was his Taming of the Shrew about a year later that really made me become a regular theatregoer. As I wanted to see more and more shows I'd start travelling to Liverpool and Manchester, then on to breaks in London. As someone who is a bit introverted and who wouldn't really go out much, that really does mean a lot to me. I was sad to read that he had died, but I'm also very grateful to him.
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Post by Jan on Feb 10, 2020 9:38:06 GMT
Nearly all the other RSC Artistic Directors have been knighted. Shame Terry never got his. Does anyone know why they went to joint Artistic Directors with him and Trevor Nunn before Terry ran the company on his own. I could have understood if it was for a year or so if Trevor was going to leave and Terry was going to take over but they did it jointly for 8 years. Ive read that Peter Hall was trying to woo him to the Nash and the only way to keep him was giving him joint AD. Plus there was all the trouble about Nunn being away for very extended periods directing commercial musicals so having joint ADs kept everyone happy. His production of Much Ado with Derek Jacobi was just perfect. That same year in London he directed a brilliant Arden of Faversham and Cyrano (also Jacobi). When he became sole AD his own RSC productions never reached those heights. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2020 11:07:17 GMT
Ive read that Peter Hall was trying to woo him to the Nash and the only way to keep him was giving him joint AD. Plus there was all the trouble about Nunn being away for very extended periods directing commercial musicals so having joint ADs kept everyone happy. His production of Much Ado with Derek Jacobi was just perfect. That same year in London he directed a brilliant Arden of Faversham and Cyrano (also Jacobi). When he became sole AD his own RSC productions never reached those heights. Maybe the two minds being better than one did work plus there was about 8 years as Joint ADs and if Trevor was away a lot doing other projects then Terry may have been running the majority of RSC stuff so might have used up a lot of his best ideas over that time. How much an AD actually directs rather than delegates is always open to discussion. |
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