Edward Hall (director)

Edward Hall (born 1967) is an English theatre director and an associate director at The National Theatre. Hall is known for directing Rose Rage, a stage adaptation of Shakespeare's three Henry VI plays. He also runs an all-male Shakespeare company, Propellor.

Career

He began his professional career as a theatre director at the Watermill Theatre in the early 1990s. At the Watermill, Hall directed a number of Shakespeare plays, including Henry V and The Comedy of Errors.

In 1996 he directed Sir Donald Sinden, Patrick Ryecart and Nigel Davenport in N.J. Crisps drama That Good Night for a major UK tour, produced by Marc Sinden Productions.

In 2002, Hall directed Rose Rage at the Haymarket Theatre. This was an ambitious adaptation of all three Shakespeare'sHenry VI plays. It was described by The Guardian as "an exhilaratingly surreal and bloody take on Shakespeare.

Although he has for the most part worked in the theatre, Hall has also done some directing for radio and television. He has directed Into Exile for BBC Radio 4. For television, Hall directed episodes of Trial and Retribution and Marple.

Personal life

Hall is the son of the theatre director Sir Peter Hall by his second marriage. He is half-brother of actress Rebecca Hall. Hall studied at Leeds University and Mountview Theatre School. He is married to Issy van Randwyck, a British comedienne and actress, with whom he has one daughter.

Selected theatreography

Director

• Victoria Station (Theatr Mwldan, Wales)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Theatre Royal Windsor and tour)
• An Ideal Husband (Theatre Royal Windsor and tour)
• Decadence (Bratislava and Oslo Nye Theatre)
• Chambers of Glass (Minerva Studio, Chicheser)
• Cain (Minerva Studio, Chichester)
• Lysistrata (West End, Richmond Theatre and Epidavros)
• Bare-Knuckle Selling (Edinburgh Festival)
• No Remission (Edinburgh Festival - Mobil Prizewinner)
• The Hanuman (RNT Studio)
• Richard III (Tokyo, Globe)
• Othello (Watermill, Newbury, and world tour)
• Henry V (Watermill, Newbury, and world tour)
• The Comedy of Errors(Watermill, Newbury, and world tour)
• Twelfth Night (Watermill, Newbury, and world tour)
• That Good Night (Marc Sinden Productions tour)
• Celaine (Hampstead)
• Sacred Heart (Royal Court Upstairs)
• Tantalus (Co-director: Denver Theatre Company and UK tour)
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC)
• Henry V (RSC)

Assistant Director

• King Lear in New York (Chichester Festival Theatre)
• Venus Observed (Chichester Festival Theatre)
• The Sisterhood (Chichester Festival Theatre)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (Chichester Festival Theatre)
• She Stoops to Conquer (Chichester Festival Theatre)
• Preserving Mr Panmure (Chichester Festival Theatre)
• I Thought I Heard a Rustling (Theatre Royal Statford East)
• The Comedy of Errors (RSC world tour)
• The Winter's Tale (RSC world tour)
• Lysistrata (RSC)

Filmography

• Kingdom (TV series)
• Trial & Retribution XI: Closure (TV movie)
• Marple: Sleeping Murder (TV movie)
• Safari Strife (Cutting Edge)
• Richard III (NHK Japan)

References

External links

• British Theatre Guide biography
• The Guardian