Making an Exhibition of Myself
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The Impresario from Smyrna
Goldoni Arts, London
The Immoralist
Gide Arts, London
Listen to the Wind (children’s musical)
Vivian Ellis Arts, London
1955 The Lesson
Ionesco Arts, London
South
Julien Green Arts, London
Mourning Becomes Electra
O’Neill Arts, London
Waiting For Godot
Beckett Arts, London
The Burnt Flower-bed
Ugo Betti Arts, London
Summertime
Ugo Betti Apollo, London
1956 The Waltz of the Toreadors
Anouilh Arts, London
Gigi
Colette New, now Albery, London
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
The Gates of Summer
John Whiting New, Oxford
1957 Camino Real
Tennessee Williams Phoenix, London
The Moon and Sixpence (opera)
John Gardner Sadler’s Wells
Cymbeline
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
The Rope Dancers (New York debut)
Morton Wishengrad Cort Theater, New York
1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams Comedy, London
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
Brouhaha
George Tabori Aldwych, London
Shadow of Heroes
Robert Ardrey Piccadilly, London
1959 Madame de …
Anouilh Arts, London
Traveller Without Luggage
Anouilh Arts, London
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
Coriolanus
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
The Wrong Side of the Park
John Mortimer Cambridge Theatre, London
1960 The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare Stratford-upon-Avon
1961 Ondine
Giraudoux RSC
Becket
Anouilh RSC
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare RSC
1962 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare RSC
The Collection
Pinter (who also co-directed) RSC
Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare RSC
1963 The Wars of the Roses (a trilogy, adapted with John Barton from Henry VI Parts 1, 2, 3 & Richard III)
Shakespeare RSC
1964 Richard II
Shakespeare RSC
Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2
Shakespeare RSC
Henry V
Shakespeare RSC
Eh?
Henry Livings RSC
1965 The Homecoming
Pinter RSC
Moses and Aaron (opera)
Schoenberg Covent Garden
Hamlet
Shakespeare RSC
1966 The Government Inspector
Gogol RSC
The Magic Flute (opera)
Mozart Covent Garden
Staircase
Charles Dyer RSC
1967 Macbeth
Shakespeare RSC
1969 A Delicate Balance
Albee RSC
Dutch Uncle
Simon Gray RSC
Landscape and Silence
Pinter RSC
1970 The Knot Garden (opera)
Tippett Covent Garden
Landschast (German language version of Landscape)
Pinter Hamburg
La Calisto (opera)
Cavalli Glyndebourne
The Battle of Shrivings
Shaffer Lyric, London
1971 Eugene Onegin (opera)
Tchaikovsky Covent Garden
Old Times
Pinter RSC
Tristan und Isolde
Wagner Covent Garden
1972 All Over
Albee RSC
Alte Zeiten
Pinter Vienna
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse (opera)
Monteverdi Glyndebourne
Via Galactica (musical)
Galt MacDermot New York
1973 The Marriage of Figaro (opera)
Mozart Glyndebourne
The Tempest
Shakespeare NT
1974 John Gabriel Borkman
Ibsen NT
Happy Days
Beckett NT
1975 No Man’s Land
Pinter NT
Hamlet
Shakespeare NT
Judgement
Barry Collins NT
Niemansland (German language version of No Man’s Land)
Pinter Hamburg
1976 Tamburlaine the Great
Marlowe NT
1977 Bedroom Farce
Ayckbourn (who also co-directed) NT
Don Giovanni (opera)
Mozart Glyndebourne
Volpone
Jonson NT
The Country Wife
Wycherley NT
1978 Così fan tutte (opera)
Mozart Glyndebourne
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov NT
Macbeth
Shakespeare NT
Betrayal
Pinter NT
1979 Fidelio (opera)
Beethoven Glyndebourne
Amadeus
Shaffer NT
1980 Othello
Shakespeare NT
1981 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (opera)
Britten Glyndebourne
The Oresteia
the trilogy by Aeschylus NT
1982 Orfeo et Eurydice (opera)
Gluck Glyndebourne
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde NT
Macbeth (opera)
Verdi Metropolitan Opera House, NY
Other Places
Pinter NT
1983 Der Ring des Nibelungen (opera)
Wagner Bayreuth
Jean Seberg (musical)
Hamlisch/Barry/Adler NT
1984 Animal Farm
Orwell/Hall NT
Coriolanus
Shakespeare NT
L’Incoronazione di Poppea (opera)
Monteverdi Glyndebourne
1985 Yonadab
Shaffer NT
Carmen (opera)
Bizet Glyndebourne
Albert Herring (opera)
Britten Glyndebourne
1986 The Petition
Clark NT
Simon Boccanegra (opera)
Verdi Glyndebourne
Salome (opera)
Strauss Los Angeles
Coming in to Land
Poliakoff NT
1987 Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare NT
La Traviata (opera)
Verdi Glyndebourne
Entertaining Strangers
Edgar NT
1988 Cymbeline
Shakespeare NT
The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare NT
The Tempest
Shakespeare NT
Falstaff (opera)
Verdi Glyndebourne
Così fan tutte (opera)
Mozart Glyndebourne
Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams PHCo./Theatre Royal
Haymarket
1989 The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare PHCo./Phoenix
New Year (opera)
Tippett Houston
The Marriage of Figaro (opera)
Mozart Glyndebourne
1990 The Wild Duck
Ibsen/Hall/Ewbank PHCo./Phoenix
New Year (opera)
Tippett Glyndebourne
&nbs
p; Born Again (musical)
Ionesco/Barry/Carr PHCo./Chichester
The Homecoming
Pinter PHCo./Comedy
1991 Twelfth Night
Shakespeare PHCo./Playhouse
The Rose Tattoo
Tennessee Williams PHCo./Playhouse
Tartuffe
Molière/Bolt PHCo./Playhouse
An Ideal Husband
Wilde PHCo./Gielgud
1992 Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
Guare Lincoln Center, NY
Sienna Red
Poliakoff PHCo./Liverpool
All’s Well that Ends Well
Shakespeare RSC
The Gift of the Gorgon
Shaffer RSC/Wyndhams
An Ideal Husband
Wilde PHCo./Gielgud
1993 The Magic Flute (opera)
Mozart Los Angeles
Separate Tables
Rattigan PHCo./Albery
Lysistrata
Aristophanes/Bolt PHCo./Old Vic
She Stoops to Conquer
Goldsmith PHCo./Queens
The Gift of the Gorgon
Shaffer PHCo./Wyndham
Piaf (musical)
Gems PHCo./Piccadilly
1994 An Absolute Turkey
Feydeau/Hall/Frei PHCo./Gielgud
On Approval
Lonsdale PHCo./Playhouse
Hamlet
Shakespeare PHCo./Gielgud
1995 The Master Builder
Ibsen/Hall/Ewbank PHCo./Haymarket
1996 Mind Millie for Me
Feydeau/Hall/Frei PHCo./Haymarket
The Oedipus Plays
Aeschylus NT, Athens, Epidaurus
1997 A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams PHCo./ Haymarket
Waste
Granville Barker PHCo./Old Vic
The Seagull
Chekhov PHCo./Old Vic
Waiting for Godot
Beckett PHCo./Old Vic
King Lear
Shakespeare PHCo./Old Vic
1998 Waiting for Godot
Beckett PHCo./Piccadilly
The Misanthrope
Molière/Bolt PHCo./Piccadilly
Major Barbara
Shaw PHCo./Piccadilly
Simon Boccanegra (opera)
Verdi Glyndebourne
Filumena
De Filippo/Wertenbaker PHCo./Piccadilly
Amadeus
Shaffer Old Vic, London
Kafka’s Dick
Bennett PHCo./Piccadilly
1999 Measure for Measure
Shakespeare CTG, Los Angeles
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare CTG, Los Angeles
Lenny
Julian Barry Queens, London
PUBLICATIONS
1970 The Wars of the Roses — with John Barton, BBC
1975 John Gabriel Borkman — Ibsen, trans. with Inga-Stina Ewbank, Athlone Press
1993 Peter Hall Diaries — ed. John Goodwin, Hamilton, Oberon Books, 2000
1985 Animal Farm — a stage adaptation of Orwell’s novel, Heinemann Press/Methuen
1990 The Wild Duck — Ibsen, trans. with Inga-Stina Ewbank, Oberon Books
1994 An Absolute Turkey — Feydeau, trans. with Nicki Frei, Oberon Books, 2000
1999 The Necessary Theatre — Nick Hern Books
2000 Exposed by the Mask: Form and Language in Drama (Clark Lectures 2000) — Oberon Books
2000 The Master Builder — Ibsen, trans. with Inga-Stina Ewbank, Oberon Books
FILMS
1968 Work is a Four Letter Word
1969 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1969 Three Into Two Won’t Go
1971 Perfect Friday
1973 The Homecoming
1974 Akenfield
1989 She’s Been Away (for BBC TV)
1990 Orpheus Descending (for Turner TV, USA)
1991 The Camomile Lawn (for C4)
1996 Final Passage (for C4)