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Richard Eyre

RICHARD EYRE

  (1943 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE worked for ten years in regional theatre in Leicester, Edinburgh and Nottingham. He was producer of the BBC's Play for Today from 1978 to 1981, and was Artistic Director of the National Theatre from 1988 to 1997. He has since worked widely in theatre and opera - including in the West End, at the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House, on Broadway and in Aix-en-Provence. His film and television work includes The Ploughman's Lunch, Tumbledown, Iris, Notes on a Scandal, and Changing Stages, a six-part look at twentieth-century theatre. He has received many awards for theatre, TV and film, and was knighted in 1997.

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         Cher Maitre         Crack In the Ice         Ghosts         Ha-Ha, The         Hedda Gabler         Little Eyolf         Novice, The

Cher Maitre

Synopsis:
the letters of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert

Notes:
translations by Francis Steegmuller And barbara Bray

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adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Crack In the Ice

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Notes:
from story by Nikolai Leskov

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  19            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ghosts

Ghosts
Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her cruel but outwardly charming husband. She is determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son, Oswald, the truth about his father. But on his return from his life as a painter in France, Oswald reveals how he has already inherited the legacy of Alving's dissolute life.

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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. From a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund

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Ha-Ha, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from novel by Jennifer Dawson.

1st Produced:
Edinburgh     1967

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adaptation

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Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 19/5

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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler
arriving home after an extended honeymoon, Hedda Gabler struggles with an existence that is, for her, devoid of excitement and enchantment. Filled with a passion for life that cannot be confined by her marriage or 'perfect home', Hedda strives to find a way to fulfil her desires by manipulating those around her. . .

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen. Literal translation by Karin & Ann Bamborough

1st Produced:
Almeida Theatre, London >>>     10 Mar 2005

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>,    978-1854598424

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Little Eyolf

Little Eyolf
How is a life well-lived? Alfred Allmers comes home to his wife, Rita, and makes a decision. Casting aside his writing, he dedicates himself to raising his son. But one event is about to change his life forever. Ibsen's Little Eyolf is a forensic examination of a marriage as it explosively falls apart.

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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

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Nick Hern Books, London   978-1848425392

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Genre:
adaptation 80 min

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  1 boy

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Novice, The

Synopsis:
When Jean-Paul Sartre's play, "Les Mains Sales," was first seen in Britain in 1948, it was called "Crime Passionel" and set in an east european country called Illythia, from which the occupying Germans were retreating as the Soviet Union advanced. the play at the almeida is called the Novice and is adapted and directed by Richard eyre from "Les Mains Sales." In his version, the time is the present and the country is neither named nor located, though a reference to knee-capping brings its local associations; But political assassination is still with us, as is the possibility that political ideas in advance of their time can be fatal. the Revolutionary Party is led by Hoederer, who plans to form a coalition with the Royalists and liberals. In consequence the party hasdecided that he must be killed and Hugo, his secretary, who has abandoned his wealthy family to join the party, is ordered to shoot him. It is a tale thrillingly told, a serious spellbinder on public and private levels about revolutionary ethics and an unloved social misfit who longs to make an impact on his time but who, like Hamlet, dithers his way to disaster, turning what should have been a powerful political statement into an act of private vengeance. For Hugo, is unloved, particularly by his upper-class wife, Jessica. She is invested with a cool, teasing, taunting contempt and, because she cannot take Hugo seriously, cannot believe in his gun as a serious instrument of terror. She is, in fact, fascinated by Hoederer, finally killed by Hugo in a confusion of sexual jealousy, political principle and the sheer need of an ineffectual rich kid to justify himself by an action ostensibly on behalf of the poor.
David Nathan, Jewish Chronicle

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean-Paul Sartre

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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