Founder, 1994: (Director and Playwright) Mime Theatre London. 1950-53: Artistic Director,
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, 1956
Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, 1957 Arts Theatre, London. 1963-80, Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company, U.K. From 1963: Artistic Directorships at: National Theatre, U.K., also the national theatres of: Spain, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Finland, Bulgaria, France, Denmark, Sweden, USSR, Canada, Japan Germany. In the United States, his Broadway productions included:
The Comedy of Errors,
Soldiers,
Sleuth,
Emperor Henry IVth,
As You Like It,
A Pack of Lies,
Aren’t We All? Breaking the Code (TV) and
Man and Superman. His opera productions include:
The Flying Dutchman,
Savitri,
Dido and Aeneas,
Bellman’s Opera. Musical productions include (in London):
Our Man Creighton,
Mardi Gras,
Oh! Calcutta and
Carte Blanche. He was the author of the children’s plays
The Sleeping Princess,
The Goose Girl and The Secret Kingdom, and he translated
Ibsen,
Strindberg and
Chekhov. He was chairman of the
British Theatre Association (1978-90). For the Royal Shakespeare Company: Directed 31 productions including the outstandingly successful (also set designer)
Comedy of Errors (with Ian Richardson, Michael Williams,
Timothy West, Donald Burton, Elizabeth Spriggs,
Janet Suzman and Susan Engel);
The Merchant of Venice (Janet Suzman, Eric Porter and William Squire) and
The Jew of Malta (Eric Porter and Tony Church). ==Selected theatre credits==