David Jones (director)
English stage, television, and film director
David Hugh Jones (19 February 1934 – 19 September 2008) was an English stage, television and film director.
Life and career
Jones was born in Poole , Dorset, the son of John David Jones and his wife Gwendolen Agnes Langworthy (Ricketts), and was educated at Taunton School and Christ's College, Cambridge .[ 1] [ 2] Huw Wheldon working on the Monitor [ 1] [ 3] T.S. Eliot 's Sweeney Agonistes W.B. Yeats 's Purgatory Samuel Beckett 's Krapp's Last Tape Mermaid Theatre in 1961.
He directed his first production for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Arts Theatre in 1962, Boris Vian 's The Empire Builder , and two years later accepted the administrative post Artistic Controller at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), helping to plan programmes of new plays and European classics at the Aldwych Theatre in London.[ 4] David Mercer and Maxim Gorky .[ 2]
For BBC television he directed Ice Age , The Beaux Stratagem and Langrishe, Go Down [ 3] Play of the Month
He left the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979, taking up an appointment as an artistic director at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and to found a resident theatre company modelled on the RSC (Beauman 344).[ 5]
After teaching at the Yale School of Drama in 1981, he returned to England, where for the BBC Television Shakespeare series he directed The Merry Wives of Windsor Pericles, Prince of Tyre Betrayal Harold Pinter 's screenplay adaptation of his 1978 play Betrayal [ 3]
From 1973 to 1978, Jones was Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), at the Aldwych Theatre , where he directed plays by William Shakespeare , Bertolt Brecht , Anton Chekhov , Seán O'Casey , Maxim Gorky , Harley Granville-Barker , Graham Greene , and others, and became an honorary associate director of the RSC in 1991. From 1979 to 1981, he was Artistic Director of the BAM Theater Company (1979–1981).[ 6]
He also directed three productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival , in Williamstown, Massachusetts : On the Razzle Tom Stoppard (2005); Sweet Bird of Youth Tennessee Williams (2006), and The Autumn Garden Lillian Hellman (2007).[ 7]
Private life
Jones married the British actress Sheila Allen in 1964 with whom he had two sons, Jesse (of Brooklyn , New York) and Joseph (of Tucson, Arizona ).[ 8] Joyce Tenneson ; the couple lived in New York at the time of his death.[ 8]
Theatre
The Empire Builders (Boris Vian) RSC Arts Theatre, 1962The Governor's Lady (David Mercer) Aldwych, 1965Saint's Day , Stratford East, 1965The Investigation Belcher's Luck (David Mercer) Aldwych, 1966;As You Like It Diary of a Scoundrel Alexander Ostrovsky ), Liverpool, 1968The Tempest The Silver Tassie After Haggerty (David Mercer) Aldwych and Criterion Theatre , 1970The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising Günter Grass ) Aldwych, 1970Enemies The Lower Depths The Island of the Mighty (John Arden ) Aldwych, 1972Love's Labour's Lost Duck Song (David Mercer) Aldwych, 1974Summerfolk The Marrying of Anne Leete (Harley Granville-Barker ) Aldwych, 1975The Return of A. J. Raffles Graham Greene ) Aldwych, 1975; Stratford 1976Twelfth Night The Zykovs (Maxim Gorky) Aldwych, 1976Ivanov Anton Chekhov ) Aldwych, 1976All's Well That Ends Well Cymbeline Baal Bertolt Brecht ) The Other Place , Stratford 1979; Donmar Warehouse , 1980The Winter's Tale Jungle of Cities Theater The Custom of the Country Nicholas Wright ) RSC Barbican The Pit , 1983Old Times Harold Pinter ), starring Liv Ullmann , Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket , 1985Principia Scriptoriae (Richard Nelson ) The Pit, 1986Barbarians Misha's Party (Richard Nelson and Alexander Gelman ) The Pit, 1993No Man's Land The Hothouse Minerva Theatre, Chichester and Comedy Theatre , 1995Taking Sides Ronald Harwood ) New York, 1996. Taking Sides, a CurtainUp review The Caretaker The Caretaker, a CurtainUp review Triptych (Edna O'Brien ) Irish Repertory Theatre , New York, 2004.Triptych, a CurtainUp review On the Razzle Tom Stoppard ), Williamstown Theatre Festival , 2005.Williamstown Theatre Festival Sweet Bird of Youth Tennessee Williams ), Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2006.Sweet Bird of Youth, a CurtainUp Berkshire Review The Last Confession Roger Crane ) Minerva Theatre, Chichester , May 2007, Theatre Royal Haymarket , July 2007.Theatre review: The Last Confession at Theatre Royal Haymarket The Autumn Garden Lillian Hellman ), Williamstown Theatre Festival, August 2007.Williamstown Theatre Festival--Summer 2007
Films
Television
Produced and presented the BBC arts magazine Monitor Review (1971–1972). Also produced Kean Jean-Paul Sartre , 1954) for BBC television (starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by James Cellan Jones ) (1978).[ 9]
Directed the following productions:
Also various episodes of:
Notes
References
Beauman, Sally . The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-19-212209-6 , 978-0-19-212209-4Billington, Michael . "Obituary: David Jones: Theatre, Television and Film Director Famed for His Interpretations of Gorky and Pinter" . Guardian.co.uk Katz, Ephraim. The Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia . 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1994. ISBN 0-333-61601-4 , ISBN 978-0-333-61601-7
Who's Who in the Theatre . 17th ed. New York: Gale, 1981. ISBN 0-8103-0235-7 Halliwell's Television Companion . 3rd ed. London: Grafton, 1986. ISBN 0-246-12838-0 Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies . Ed. John Walker. 4th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0-00-716957-4 Theatre Record Theatre Record annual indexes.
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