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 Sir Peter Hall directed his first play while he was still a student. He soon achieved prominence as a stage director. He started his occasional film work in 1968 with Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968). He was the Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon from 1960 - 1968. Took over direction of the National Theatre from Lord Laurence Olivier in 1973, shortly after leaving the RSC.
Bio:
Sir Peter Hall directed his first play while he was still a student. He soon achieved prominence as a stage director. He started his occasional film work in 1968 with Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968). He was the Artistic Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon from 1960 - 1968. Took over direction of the National Theatre from Lord Laurence Olivier in 1973, shortly after leaving the RSC.
Tivia:
Father of actress Rebecca Hall with Maria Ewing; Christopher Hall and Jennifer Caron Hall with Leslie Caron; Lucy Hall and Edward Hall with Jacqueline Taylor; Emma Hall with Nicola Frei.He was awarded the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award: Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Arts.He was awarded the 1990 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Director of The Wild Duck.A strong believer in reciting Shakespeare's dialogue as verse rather than prose, and keeping the "verse structure" as much as possible.He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1963 Queen's Birthday Honours List and created a Knight Bachelor in the 1977 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Drama.Attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, of which he became an Honorary Fellow in 1964.He was awarded the 1999 Back Stage Garland Award for Outstanding Director for "Measure for Measure" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.He was awarded the 1987 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for Anthony and Cleopatra.Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: in 1967 as Best Director (Dramatic) for Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming," and in 1981 as Best Director (Play) for Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus." He has also been Tony-nominated eight other times: as Best Director, in 1958 for "The Rope Dancers;" as Best Director (Dramatic), in 1972 for Harold Pinter's "Old Times," as Best Director (Play), in 1979 with collaborator-playwright Alan Ayckbourn for "Bedroom Farce," in 1980 for Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," in 1992 for John Guare's "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun," and in 1996 for a revival of 'Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband;" and in 1990 as Best Director (Play) and one of the co-producers of Best Revival nominee, Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."Father-in-law of Glenn Wilhide, Issy van Randwyck and Jane Studd.Grandfather of Stephanie Clive and Freddie Hall.He was awarded the 1981 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for The Oresteia.Daughter Lucy born 1969 with Jacqueline and daughter Rebecca born with Maria. |
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Peter Hall |
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Director,Additional Crew,Actor (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Director,Additional Crew,Actor |
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| Biography: |
Sir Peter Hall directed his first play while he was still a student. He soon achieved prominence as a stage director. He started his occasional film work in 1968 with Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968). He was the Artistic Director of The Royal S |
| Trivia: |
Father of actress Rebecca Hall with Maria Ewing; Christopher Hall and Jennifer Caron Hall with Leslie Caron; Lucy Hall and Edward Hall with Jacqueline Taylor; Emma Hall with Nicola Frei.He was awarded the 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award: Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Arts.He was awarded the 1990 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Director of The Wild Duck.A strong believer in reciting Shakespeare's dialogue as verse rather than prose, and keeping the "verse structure" as much as possible.He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1963 Queen's Birthday Honours List and created a Knight Bachelor in the 1977 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Drama.Attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, of which he became an Honorary Fellow in 1964.He was awarded the 1999 Back Stage Garland Award for Outstanding Director for "Measure for Measure" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.He was awarded the 1987 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for Anthony and Cleopatra.Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: in 1967 as Best Director (Dramatic) for Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming," and in 1981 as Best Director (Play) for Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus." He has also been Tony-nominated eight other times: as Best Director, in 1958 for "The Rope Dancers;" as Best Director (Dramatic), in 1972 for Harold Pinter's "Old Times," as Best Director (Play), in 1979 with collaborator-playwright Alan Ayckbourn for "Bedroom Farce," in 1980 for Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," in 1992 for John Guare's "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun," and in 1996 for a revival of 'Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband;" and in 1990 as Best Director (Play) and one of the co-producers of Best Revival nominee, Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."Father-in-law of Glenn Wilhide, Issy van Randwyck and Jane Studd.Grandfather of Stephanie Clive and Freddie Hall.He was awarded the 1981 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for The Oresteia.Daughter Lucy born 1969 with Jacqueline and daughter Rebecca born with Maria. |
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[in 2008] Actors now think that if they raise their voice, they are being "unrealistic". I tell them, "What you do is unreal. You're wearing someone else's clothes and speaking someone else's words".
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I've worked with practically all the great directors, alphabetically, from Bergman [Ingmar Bergman] to Zeffirelli [Franco Zeffirelli]. It's wonderful to be involved in the mystery of other directors' work, because they're all different. But most will know within the first three or four days whether it's going to work. The interesting thing is when it's wrong they have to go on and they can't tell anybody it's wrong.
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I love the politics of committees. I love the fact that with any committee if they set out on a certain path there is always a moment in the discussion if you pick the right moment and you have the right case where you can completely reverse their decision. I mean it's a very undemocratic procedure.
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The theatre is always dying, always has been, because it's always changing. Change looks like imminent death sometimes. But it won't ever go away because it's live and there's nothing that you can compare it to because of that.
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To play [Alan] Ayckbourn properly, you have to dig deep, be serious and then get laughed at. It wounds the personality |
| Job title: |
Director,Additional Crew,Actor |
| Others works: |
(May 2002) Directed "Bacchai", a play by Euripides, translated by Colin Teevan (Royal National Theatre/Olivier, London, England, UK).
(October 2002) He was the director for "Mrs. Warren's Profession", a play by George Bernard Sha |
| Spouse: |
Nicola Frei (1990 - September 11, 2017) (his death, 1 child)Maria Ewing (1982 - 1990) (divorced, 1 child)Jacqueline Taylor (1965 - 1981) (divorced, 2 children)Leslie Caron (August 6, 1956 - February 5, |
| Children: |
Rebecca Hall |
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