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Peter Hall Sir Peter Hall has had a distinguished career as a director of plays, films and operas. Born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, he was educated at the Perse School and at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He made his debut at Windsor and was Director of the Oxford Playhouse 1954-55. He ran the Arts Theatre London 1956-59 where his productions included the English-language première of Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In the 1957-59 seasons he was at Stratford-on-Avon where his productions included Cymbeline with Peggy Ashcroft, Coriolanus with Laurence Olivier and Edith Evans, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Charles Laughton. Peter Hall created the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 and opened the RSC's first London home at the Aldwych Theatre. He became Director of the Royal National Theatre in 1973, spending 15 years with the Company and moving it into the new theatres on the South Bank. He has directed opera in many of the world's leading opera houses including the Royal Opera House, The Metropolitan Opera, Bayreuth (a celebrated production of Wagner's Ring Cycle), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and Geneva. He has directed over 200 major theatre productions including 28 of Shakespeare's plays and premières of plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter (nine world premières), Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Jean Anouilh, Peter Shaffer, John Mortimer, John Whiting, Simon Gray, David Edgar and Alan Ayckbourn. A recipient of many arts nominations and awards including two Tony Awards (for The Homecoming and for Amadeus) and an Olivier Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, Peter Hall was Knighted in 1977 for his services to the British Theatre. | |||||||||||||||
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