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London Theatre: REDGRAVE, red'grav, Sir Michael, English actor: b. Bristol, England, March 20, 1908. A highly effective actor and director who also wrote authoritatively on the drama, he was knighted in 1959 "for services to the theatre."
After a stint as a schoolmaster, Redgrave joined the acting company of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre in 1934; he made his london theatre debut in 1936 and his American debut (as Macbeth) in 1948. He also appeared frequently with the Old Vie in london theatre and, as actor and director at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford.
From 1955 to 1957 he was a director at the experimental Arts Theatre in london theatre and staged premiers of Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors and Beckett's controversial Waiting for Codot. At Sadler's Wells he directed a new opera by John Gardner, The Moon and Sixpence (1957). From 1956, Hall staged plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford; he be"came its director in 1960, directing plays both at Stratford and in london theatre at the Aldwych Theatre. In New York he directed Pinter's The Homecoming (1966), for which he won the Antoinette Perry Award.
MR THEATRE, a New York organization that xluced plays from 1929 to 1941, attempting Ming new life and significance to what it con-a stagnant theater. It was founded by restigious Theatre Guild as the Theatre Studio and produced a number of experi-plays. Cheryl Crawford, Lee Strasberg, «a Harold Clurman were in control when it Paul Green's The House of Connelly 1), after which it became independent as Group Theatre. |
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