Michael Boyd

What's to like? For actors, it seems, quite a lot. "It may not be a leading role, but it's a lovely opportunity role," says Michael Boyd, artistic director of the RSC. "Malvolio is clearly at odds with the world, and possibly with...

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Michael Boyd (born 6 July 1955) is a British theatre director, and current artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has regularly collaborated with stage designer Tom Piper since they first worked together on a pantomime for...

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Natalia Vorozhbit's play The Grain Store is about one of Stalin's most monstrous crimes, the 1930s famine in Ukraine. Directed by Michael Boyd and cast to the hilt, it tries in vain to combine a grim history lesson with Gogol's vitriolic...

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...hate hyperbole, but I am almost prepared to say it is going to be the best theatre in the world," said Boyd. After the new theatre has bedded in, Boyd said, the company would turn to addressing the lack of a permanent home in London. In...

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...by the Sun; next week they'll open the mother of all such dramas: her name is Courage. Meanwhile the RSC, whose artistic director Michael Boyd has worked in the former Soviet Union, launches a four-year investigative staging of Russian...

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...was 'cursed be he who disturbs my bones', which I sort of took as 'bugger off and leave me alone'. So," says Michael Boyd, with a rather sweet smile, "I went away and left him alone." Post a Comment Offensive or abusive comments will be...

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...as free as that of a small child or a fairy," the Daily Star quoted the Royal Shakespeare Company''s artistic director Michael Boyd as saying. The production will start its run next year (10). Rating: This article has not been rated...

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...role for a fourth time in a new stage adaption at the Rose Theatre in London. The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director Michael Boyd says, "Judi Dench has not aged in the same way that normal people do and her imagination remains as...

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...by Nina Raine, will form part of Revolutions, a season of Russian work long planned by the Russophile artistic director Michael Boyd. Alongside the Durnenkovs' work is The Grain Store, a new play about the bitter cost of collectivisation...

In this article: Russia, Stratford, Chechnya, and Moscow

...his bold new plans for the UK's most prestigious theatre. Last Updated: 5:13PM BST 21 Apr 2009 It's a measure of how greatly Michael Boyd has transformed the Royal Shakespeare Company's fortunes since he took over as artistic director...

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