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September 11, 2017, London (aged 86) Peter Hall (born November 22, 1930, Bury Saint Edmonds, Suffolk, England—died September 11, 2017, London) was an English theatrical manager and director who held notably successful tenures as director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Hall produced and acted in amateur productions ...
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Sep 13, 2017 · Wed 13 Sep 2017 04.36 EDT. Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.33 EDT. P eter Hall was a man of infinite contradictions. In public, he exuded confidence, authority and the gift for leadership that ...
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- Showed Early Ambition, Interests
- Formed Royal Shakespeare Company
- Headed Royal National Theatre
- Formed His Own Company
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Hall himself displayed a rather exuberant personality. He recalled that even as a child he tended to be a risk taker and overachiever. This disposition often made his mother anxious, and Hall enjoyed provoking her anxieties and ire. Very much a "Suffolk country woman," Grace Hall responded to her son's antics with cautionary or comforting aphorisms...
In 1960 Hall was named director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which had been built in 1932 to showcase the Bard's works. During his first year there Hall redesigned the stage and renamed the building the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He also formed the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and established its home at the Aldwych Theatre in London. Ha...
In 1973 Hall became managing director of the Royal National Theatre in London, succeeding Lawrence Olivier, who founded the organization. At first Hall staged plays at the Old Vic Theatre, which throughout its 150-plus-year history had included as part of its company such actors as Oliver, Ashcroft, Gielgud, and Sir Ralph Richardson. In 1976 Hall m...
In 1988 he formed the Peter Hall Company, and the group's first productions included Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave and The Merchant of Venice with Dustin Hoffman playing Shylock. The new company worked around the world, appearing in more than 40 productions in London, New York, Europe, and Australia. During this peri...
In 1997, at age 66, Hall enjoyed what turned out to be one of the most famous seasons of his career. As artistic director at the Old Vic, he staged a 13-play repertoire that became a landmark in the history of that world-famous institution. The schedule included classics performed from Tuesday to Saturday and new plays on Sunday and Monday. Among t...
Throughout his decades working in the theatre, Hall has received numerous awards and honors. In 1967 he accepted a Tony Award for best director for his production of Pinter's The Homecoming, receiving this honor again in 1981 for Amadeus. In 1988, he received the first-ever Critic's Circle Award. In 1999 Hall was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award ...
Daily Variety,March 25, 2004. Evening Standard,September 6, 1996; March 23, 2000; November 27, 2000. Library Journal,March 1, 2004. New Statesman,February 28, 1997. Theatre Record,August 21, 1997.
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Sep 12, 2017 · Sir Peter Hall was one of the great champions of British theatre. In a career spanning seven decades, he acted, directed theatre and opera, and, occasionally, made forays into film and TV.
Hall defended Barton’s textual cuts and edits, arguing that the less mature work of Shakespeare wasn’t served by museum-style re-creations. The theater is a living place where the genius of ...
In 1960, aged 29, Hall was appointed as Artistic Director, and created the Royal Shakespeare Company to realise his vision of a resident ensemble of actors, directors and designers producing both modern and classic texts, with a distinctive house style. Sir Peter Hall in 1962.
Sep 12, 2017 · Sir Trevor Nunn once said that Hall had "changed theatre from ancient to modern". He did so in two ways. Firstly by combining the ancient and modern - most notably during his time running the RSC ...
