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STEPHEN UNWIN
(1960 - )Nationality: English
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Stephen Unwin is Artistic Director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston.He founded English Touring Theatre in 1993, where his Shakespeare productions include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry IV, Parts One and Two, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. He is the winner of the 2003 Sam Wanamaker Shakespeare Globe Award. He directed Kenneth McLeish's translations of A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler and the Master Builder. He has directed more than fifty Theatre and opera productions for the Royal National Theatre, English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Royal Court Theatre and many others. His work has been seen at the Donmar Warehouse, the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic. He has co-written A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama and A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg (Faber and Faber), So You Want to be a Theatre Director? (Nick Hern Books) and A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht (Methuen). He was Visiting Professor at the University of California and the Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.
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Ghosts La Ronde Lady from the Sea, TheGhosts
Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from the past around her, Oswald discovers that there is more to his mystery illness than he first thought. Only by uncovering the truth can they both be set free. . .
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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
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Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames
19 Sep 2013
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Rose Theatre Kingston and English Touring Theatre
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Top of PageLa Ronde
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the famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. the play is a series of ten scenes depicting couples in different sexual liaisons. Each of the ten characters appears in two adjacent scenes, forming an endless chain of sexual links across all the layers of Viennese society. Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen (its original title, conventionally translated as La Ronde) was written in Vienna in 1896/7 but, because of its scandalous subject-matter, was not performed in full until 1920. It has been adapted often (notably by David Hare as the Blue Room), and filmed several times (including by Max Ophuls, 1950; Roger Vadim, 1964; and Otto Schenk, 1973).
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Original Playwright - Arthur Schnitzler. Translated by Stephen Unwin And Peter Zombory-Moldovan
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Top of PageLady from the Sea, The
Ellida, claustrophobic and restless, swims in the sea every day. She loves her husband Dr Wangel but, ten years ago, promised herself to another man. On a late summer's day he comes to claim her.
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Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen
1st Produced:
Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames
23 Feb 2012
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