#peter hall

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28th August 1960: Two women soak up the atmosphere at a rave on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, Surrey. (Photo by Peter Hall/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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agamemnon of oresteia, dir. peter hall, trans. tony harrison, 1983

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One highlight is in 1966 when Stewart, preparing to play in “Hamlet,” is given a one-hour tutorial by the late great director Peter Hall, considered the single most influential figure in modern British theater.

“When the hour was up and I looked at my book, there was nothing but notes scribbled into it,” Stewart says. “I realized that he had opened up this text to me in ways that no one had ever done before.”

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His adoration for Shakespeare would serve him well later in his 40s when he was asked to play Jean-Luc Picard, a 24th century starship commander.

“There is a formality to the way they speak and comport themselves that remind me of numerous Shakespearean situations I’d been in onstage. I should play Jean Luc, I realized, as if he were a character in ‘Henry IV,’ which is about brave men.”

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Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Hall, 1968

[themarvellousmichaelbryant]

After joining the RSC in 1964, the following year Michael Bryant appeared in the premiere of Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming, directed by Peter Hall.

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Judi Dench as Queen Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968) dir. Peter Hall

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Claire Bloom-Rod Steiger "Tres no caben en dos" (Three into two won´t go) 1969, de Peter Hall.

[alexanderpearce]

orestes and the furies, furies of oresteia, dir. peter hall, 1983

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Never Talk to Strangers (1995)

Directed by Peter Hall

Cinematography by Elemér Ragályi

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Opera House’s Origin Story Is, Well, Operatic

The Sydney Opera House is a stunning example of 20th-century architecture at its best, and one of the planet’s most identifiable modern landmarks. The story of its construction and completion, though, is a bit less lovely. In fact, that story, full of conflict and controversy, might seem operatic in scale. Composer Alan John and librettist Dennis Watkins certainly thought so. Their opera, The…

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A L'ENTORN DE LA DIRECCIÓ ESCÈNICA A LES ÒPERES DE WAGNER (6): DIE WALKÜRE A BAYREUTH

Die Walküre acte 3r Bayreuth 1976-1980 Patrice Chéreau Seguint aquest projecte de recopilació de documentació visual de totes les produccions que han passat pel Festival de Bayreuth des de la inauguració del 1876, avui proposo Die Walküre i amb ella traspassem l’equador dels drames wagnerians permesos al festival. Ara “l’escandalosa” producció de Chéreau que encapçala l’apunt, per a mi una…

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[themarvellousmichaelbryant]

In 1965, the ITV arts series 'Tempo' screened a profile on Harold Pinter featuring his new play 'The Homecoming' which was performed for the first time that year by the RSC. Michael Bryant played Teddy, the son who had escaped the claustrophobic family home and made a new life for himself in America a a professor of philosophy. In the play, Teddy was retuning to the London family home with his wife for the first time, a decision which was to have dramatic consequences...

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