Peter Hall

...Godot in Paris in 1952, before receiving its English language premiere at London's Arts Theatre in 1955 ina production directed by Peter Hall. Prior to this production, it was last seen on the West End stage when Hall directd it again...

In this article: Waiting for Godot, Sean Mathias, Matthew Kelly, Broadway, London, Samuel Beckett, Ian McKellen, and Williamstown Theatre Festival

...night of the play's English language version at the Arts Theatre in 1955 was so confused and angry that some members walked out. Peter Hall, the director, went round the dressing rooms telling the cast that it was still worth a try. Next...

In this article: Timothy Bateson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Samuel Beckett, Kenneth Tynan, and Law Society

...- he was sensational and never put a paw out of line. He was wonderful.'' Dame Judi will next year reunite with theatre director Sir Peter Hall, a theatrical partnership that has lasted some 50 years. She is to play Titania, in A Midsummer...

In this article: Judi Dench, Dog, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Surgery, Titania, and Cranford

...propelling her to true Hollywood stardom and masking the controversy in the press. In 1956, Caron met theater director Peter Hall in London, where the two were working on the stage production of "Gigi. " Sparks flew almost instantly,...

In this article: Leslie Caron, Warren Beatty, Gigi, An American in Paris, Hollywood, MGM, Dog, and Bonnie and Clyde

...and Christmas is over, Judi will play Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, which her great friend Peter Hall will direct at the Rose Theatre in Kingston, opposite up-and- coming actor Reece Ritchie as Puck.

In this article: Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine, Marion Cotillard, Nine, Rob Marshall, and Federico Fellini

A cast that includes Rachael Stirling, James Laurenson and Charles Edwards will join the previously announced Judi Dench in Peter Hall's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, beginning performances at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, Feb....

In this article: Judi Dench, National Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Haymarket, Hay Fever, Twelfth Night, and Theatre Royal

...British premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre, London, in 1955. The production, directed by Peter Hall, moved on to the Criterion amid a continuing debate about what the play meant: the actors were no...

In this article: Timothy Bateson, David Copperfield, John Gielgud, Rutland, Waiting for Godot, The Country Wife, Kenneth Tynan, William Shakespeare, and William Wycherley

...from here Peter Needham was associated for many years with the National Theatre and especially with historic productions by Sir Peter Hall. Needham had a wonderful ability to adapt to the style of a production and to focus his...

In this article: Tamburlaine, National Theatre, Hamlet, Cheek by Jowl, Touchstone, The Romans in Britain, and Albert Finney

...just as nicely. At a push, you could say both works involve night-time commotions and no one has frolicking, happy sex in either. Peter Hall's staging of Bedroom Farce moves at a decent clip: within 20 minutes we know all the couples who...

In this article: Bedroom Farce, Miss Julie, and Alan Ayckbourn

...ingenious comedy of marriage and manners looks simultaneously quaint and spot-on in this revival by Peter Hall, 32 years after Hall co-directed the play's London premiere with its author at the National Theatre. Unfolding over one...

In this article: Jane Asher, Nicholas Le Prevost, Lucy Briers, Accrual, and Alan Ayckbourn