Productions in The Festival Seasons from 1962

Year Artistic Director Production

Show Director

 

2009

JONATHAN CHURCH

Festival Theatre

 

 

 

HAY FEVER

NIKOLAI FOSTER

 

 

CYRANO DE BERGERAC

TREVOR NUNN

 

 

OKLAHOMA!

JOHN DOYLES

 

 

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

JONATHAN CHURCH

 

 

SEPARATE TABLES

PHILIP FRANKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minerva Theatre

 

 

 

THE LAST CIGARETTE

RICHARD EYRE

 

 

TAKING SIDES

PHILIP FRANKS

 

 

COLLABORATION

PHILIP FRANKS

 

 

WALLENSTEIN

ANGUS JACKSON

 

 

THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE

HOWARD DAVIES

 

 

ENRON

RUPERT GOOLD

 

 

 

 

 2008 JONATHAN CHURCH Festival Theatre  

 

 

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

PHILIP FRANKS

 

 

THE MUSIC MAN

RACHEL KAVANAUGH

 

 

THE CIRCLE

JONATHAN CHURCH

 

 

CALENDAR GIRLS

HAMISH MCCOLL

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minerva Theatre

 

 

 

FUNNY GIRL

ANGUS JACKSON

 

 

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR

RUPERT GOOLD

 

 

COLLABORATION

PHILIP FRANKS

 

 

TAKING SIDES

PHILIP FRANKS

 

 

ARISTO

NANCY MECKLER

 

 

 

 

 

 

Others (Promenade)

 

 

 

TOAD OF TOAD HALL

DALE ROOKS

 

 

 

 

2007 JONATHAN CHURCH Festival Theatre  
    THE LAST CONFESSION DAVID JONES
    BABES IN ARMS MARTIN CONNOR
    TWELFTH NIGHT PHILIP FRANKS
    HOBSON'S CHOICE JONATHAN CHURCH
     NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Parts I & II JONATHAN CHURCH 
PHILIP FRANKS

 

 

 

 

    Minerva Theatre  
    OFFICE SUITE EDWARD KEMP
    MACBETH RUPERT GOOLD
    THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS ANGUS JACKSON
    I AM SHAKESPEARE

MATTHEW WARCHUS MARK RYLANCE

       
2006 JONATHAN CHURCH Festival Theatre  
    ENTERTAINING ANGELS ALAN STRACHAN
    CAROUSEL ANGUS JACKSON
    NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Parts I & II JONATHAN CHURCH
PHILIP FRANKS
    PRAVDA JONATHAN CHURCH
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    IN PRAISE OF LOVE PHILIP WILSON
    TONIGHT AT 8.30 Parts I & II LUCY BAILEY
    THE FATHER ANGUS JACKSON
    GRIMM TALES DALE ROOKS
       
2005 MARTIN DUNCAN RUTH MACKENZIE STEVEN PIMLOTT Festival Theatre  
    THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR MARTIN DUNCAN
    SCAPINO, OR THE TRICKSTER SILVIU PURCARETE
    HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING MARTIN DUNCAN
    5/11 STEVEN PIMLOTT
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    SIX PICTURES OF LEE MILLER ANTHONY VAN LAAST
    KING LEAR STEVEN PIMLOTT
    THE SCARLET LETTER PHYLLIS NAGY
    ARABIAN NIGHTS DALE ROOKS
       
2004 MARTIN DUNCAN
RUTH MACKENZIE
STEVEN PIMLOTT
Festival Theatre  
    OUT OF THIS WORLD MARTIN DUNCAN
    A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM GALE EDWARDS
    JUST SO ANTHONY DREWE
    THE MASTER AND MARGARITA STEVEN PIMLOTT
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    SEVEN DOORS STEVEN PIMLOTT
    CRUEL AND TENDER LUC BONDY
    THREE WOMEN AND A PIANO TUNER SAMUEL WEST
    DOCTOR FAUSTUS MARTIN DUNCAN
EDWARD KEMP
DALE ROOKS
       
2003 MARTIN DUNCAN
RUTH MACKENZIE
STEVEN PIMLOTT
Festival Theatre  
    THE GONDOLIERS MARTIN DUNCAN
    THE MERCHANT OF VENICE GALE EDWARDS
    THE WATER BABIES JEREMY SAMS
    THE SEAGULL STEVEN PIMLOTT
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    NATHAN THE WISE STEVEN PIMLOTT
    HOLES IN THE SKIN SIMON USHER
    THE COFFEE HOUSE SIMON GONELLA
    I CAUGHT MY DEATH IN VENICE MARTIN DUNCAN
    PINOCCHIO DALE ROOKS
       
2002 ANDREW WELCH Festival Theatre  
    THE FRONT PAGE DOUGLAS WAGER
    CABARET LUCY BAILEY
    ROMEO AND JULIET INDHU RUBASINGHAM
    THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING SAMUEL WEST
    WILD ORCHIDS  EDWARD KEMP
    UP ON THE ROOF ANGUS JACKSON
    BLUNT SPEAKING MARK CLEMENS
    SONGS OF THE WESTERN MEN ANDY BRERETON
    DEAD FUNNY LOVEDAY INGRAM
       
2001 ANDREW WELCH Festival Theatre  
    ON THE RAZZLE PETER WOOD
    THE WINSLOW BOY CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
    MY ONE & ONLY LOVEDAY INGRAM
    THE THREE SISTERS LOVEDAY INGRAM
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    SONG OF SINGAPORE ROGER REDFARN
    SHANG-A-LANG ANDY BRERETON
    IN CELEBRATION SEAN HOLMES
    THE SECRET RAPTURE INDHU RUBASINGHAM
    PUTTING IT TOGETHER EDWARD HALL
    ALICE'S ADVENTURES DALE ROOKS
2000 ANDREW WELCH Festival Theatre  
    THE RECRUITING OFFICER JAMES KERR
    HEARTBREAK HOUSE CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
    A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS RACHEL KAVANAUGH
    ARCADIA PETER WOOD
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    THE SEA SEAN HOLMES
    THE BLUE ROOM LOVEDAY INGRAM
    PAL JOEY LOVEDAY INGRAM
    ARISTOCRATS SEAN HOLMES
    HYSTERIA LOVEDAY INGRAM

Year

Artistic Director

Production

Show Director

1999 ANDREW WELCH Festival Theatre  
    IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
    SEMI-DETACHED CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
    EASY VIRTUE MARIA AITKEN
    THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER JOE DOWLING
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    THE KING OF PRUSSIA SEAN HOLMES
    INSIGNIFICANCE LOVEDAY INGRAM
    NYMPH ERRANT ROGER REDFARN
    THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT JACK SHEPHERD
    THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
       
1998 ANDREW WELCH Festival Theatre  
    SATURDAY, SUNDAY & MONDAY JUDE KELLY
    RACING DEMON CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
    CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT PATRICK GARLAND
    KATHERINE HOWARD ROBIN LEFEVRE
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    LOOT DAVID GRINDLEY
    SONG OF SINGAPORE ROGER REDFARN
    THE GLASS MENAGERIE JACOB MURRAY
       
1997 DUNCAN WELDON / DEREK JACOBI Festival Theatre  
    THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON MICHAEL RUDMAN
    LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN RICHARD COTTRELL
    BLITHE SPIRIT TIM LUSCOMBE
    DIVORCE ME DARLING PAUL KERRYSON
    OUR BETTERS MICHAEL RUDMAN
    THE MAGISTRATE NICHOLAS BROADHURST
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    AFTER OCTOBER KEITH BAXTER
    NOCTURNE FOR LOVERS KADO KOSTZER
    TALLULAH MICHAEL RUDMAN
    SUZANNA ANDLER LINDY DAVIES
    MISALLIANCE FRANK HAUSER
    ELECTRA DAVID LEVEAUX
       
1996 DUNCAN WELDON / DEREK JACOBI Festival Theatre  
    LOVE FOR LOVE IAN JUDGE
    MANSFIELD PARK MICHAEL RUDMAN
    BEETHOVEN'S TENTH JOE HARMSTON
    WHEN WE ARE MARRIED JUDE KELLY
    FORTUNE'S FOOL GALE EDWARDS
    LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS STEVEN RAYNE
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    SIMPLY DISCONNECTED RICHARD WILSON
    TALKING HEADS ALAN BENNETT
    UNCLE VANYA BILL BRYDEN
    HEDDA GABLER LINDY DAVIES
    BEATRIX

PATRICK GARLAND

    THE HANDYMAN CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
    IT COULD BE ANYONE OF US ALAN AYCKBOURN
       
1995 DUNCAN WELDON / DEREK JACOBI Festival Theatre  
    HADRIAN VII

TERRY HANDS

    HOBSONS CHOICE FRANK HAUSER
    THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

RICHARD COTTRELL

    THE MISER NICHOLAS BROADHURST
    THE VISIT TERRY HANDS
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    TAKING SIDES

HAROLD PINTER

    A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR ALAN AYCKBOURN
    PLAYING THE WIFE RICHARD CLIFFORD
    THE HOTHOUSE DAVID JONES
    MONSIEUR AMILCAR TIM LUSCOMBE
       
1994 PATRICK GARLAND Festival Theatre  
    THE RIVALS RICHARD COTTRELL
    PYGMALION PATRICK GARLAND
    THE SCHOOLMISTRESS MATTHEW FRANCIS
    LET'S DO IT JEFF THACKER
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    A DOLLS HOUSE ANNIE CASTLEDINE
    DANGEROUS CORNER KEITH BAXTER
    THREE SISTERS

LISA FORELL

       
1993 PATRICK GARLAND Festival Theatre  
    GETTING MARRIED TIM SUPPLE
    RELATIVE VALUES TIM LUSCOMBE
    PICKWICK PATRICK GARLAND
    THE MATCHMAKER PATRICK MASON
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    CARRINGTON ANNIE CASTLEDINE
    ROPE KEITH BAXTER
    ELVIRA '40 PATRICK GARLAND
       
1992 PATRICK GARLAND Festival Theatre  
    CORIOLANUS TIM SUPPLE
    VENUS OBSERVED JAMES ROOSE EVANS
    KING LEAR IN NEW YORK PATRICK GARLAND
    SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER PETER WOOD
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    ME AND MY GIRL IAN RICKSON
    DOUBLE TAKE HUGH WOOLDRIDGE
    NIJINSKY — DEATH OF A FAUN JANE MCCULLOCH
    VITA & VIRGINIA PATRICK GARLAND
    CAIN EDWARD HALL
       
1991 PATRICK GARLAND Festival Theatre  
    ARSENIC AND OLD LACE ANNIE CASTLEDINE
    HENRY VIII IAN JUDGE
    TOVARICH PATRICK GARLAND
    PRESERVING MR PANMURE PETER WOOD
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    POINT VALAINE TIM LUSCOMBE
    THE SISTERHOOD TONY BRITTON
    VALENTINE'S DAY GILLIAN LYNNE
    ADAM WAS A GARDENER CAROLINE SHARMAN
    TALKING HEADS ALAN BENNETT
       
1990 MICHAEL RUDMAN Festival Theatre  
    MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR MICHAEL RUDMAN
    THE POWER AND THE GLORY TIM LUSCOMBE
    THE SILVER KING PETER WOOD
    RUMOURS MICHAEL RUDMAN
    BORN AGAIN PETER HALL
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    THERESE RAQUIN DAVID LEVEAUX
    EURYDICE MICHAEL RUDMAN
    70, GIRLS, 70 PAUL KERRYSON
    MY MOTHER SAID I NEVER SHOULD ANNIE CASTLEDINE
    SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE RITA RUSSEK
       
Year Artistic Director Production Show Director
1989 JOHN GALE Festival Theatre  
    VICTORY PATRICK GARLAND & MATTHEW FRANCIS
    THE HEIRESS VIVAN MATALAN
    LONDON ASSURANCE SAM MENDES
    A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC IAN JUDGE
       
    Minerva Theatre  
    SUMMERFOLK  
    CULTURE VULTURES  
    WARRIOR  
    THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE  
    CLOUD NINE  
    LOVE'S LABOURS LOST  
    THE PURITY GAME  
    WAR AND PEACES  
       
1988 JOHN GALE HAY FEVER TONY BRITTON
    MAJOR BARBARA CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN
    THE ROYAL BACCARAT SCANDAL VAL MAY
    RING ROUND THE MOON ELIJAH MOSHINSKY
       
1987 JOHN GALE ROBERT AND ELIZABETH STEWART TAYLOR
    AN IDEAL HUSBAND TONY BRITTON
    A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS FRANK HAUSER
    MIRANDA WENDY TOYE
       
1986 JOHN GALE ANNIE GET YOUR GUN DAVID GILMORE
    THE CHALK GARDEN RONALD EYRE
    THE RELAPSE MATTHEW FRANCIS
    JANE EYRE PETER COE
    A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM LARRY GELBART
       
1985 JOHN GALE CAVALCADE DAVID GILMORE
    ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ROBIN PHILLIPS
    THE PHILANTHROPIST PATRICK GARLAND
    THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL NICHOLAS HYTNER
       
1984 PATRICK GARLAND FORTY YEARS ON PATRICK GARLAND
    OH, KAY! IAN JUDGE
    THE MERCHANT OF VENICE PATRICK GARLAND
    THE WAY OF THE WORLD WILLIAM GASKILL
       
1983 PATRICK GARLAND A PATRIOT FOR ME RONALD EYRE
    TIME AND THE CONWAYS PETER DEWS
    AS YOU LIKE IT PATRICK GARLAND
    THE SLEEPING PRINCE PETER COE
       
1982 PATRICK GARLAND ON THE ROCKS JACK EMERY & P GARLAND
    VALMOUTH JOHN DEXTER
    CAVELL PATRICK GARLAND
    GOODBYE, MR CHIPS PATRICK GARLAND &
CHRIS SELBIE
       
1981 PATRICK GARLAND THE CHERRY ORCHARD PATRICK GARLAND
    FEASTING WITH PANTHERS PETER COE
    THE MITFORD GIRLS PATRICK GARLAND
    UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES ROGER REDFARN
       
Year Artistic Director Production Show Director
1980 PETER DEWS THE LAST OF MRS CHEYNEY

PATRICK LAU

    TERRA NOVA PETER DEWS
    MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING PETER DEWS
    OLD HEAD AND YOUNG HEARTS MICHAEL SIMPSON
       
1979 PETER DEWS THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE PETER DEWS
    THE EAGLE HAS TWO HEADS DAVID WILLIAM
    THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST PETER DEWS
    THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER PATRICK LAU
       
1978 PETER DEWS A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE PATRICK GARLAND
    THE INCONSTANT COUPLE NOEL WILLMAN
    THE ASPERN PAPERS DAVID WILLIAM
    LOOK AFTER LULU PATRICK GARLAND
       
1977 KEITH MICHELL WATERS OF THE MOON JOHN CLEMENTS
    IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE KEITH MICHELL
    JULIUS CAESAR PETER DEWS
    THE APPLE CART PATRICK GARLAND
       
1976 KEITH MICHELL NOAH ERIC THOMPSON
    TWELFTH NIGHT KEITH MICHELL
    THE CIRCLE PETER DEWS
    MONSIEUR PERRICHON'S TRAVELS PATRICK GARLAND
       
1975 KEITH MICHELL CYRANO DE BERGERAC JOSE FERRER
    AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE PATRICK GARLAND
    MADE IN HEAVEN WENDY TOYE
    OTHELLO PETER DEWS
       
1974 KEITH MICHELL TONIGHT WE IMPROVISE PETER COE
    THE CONFEDERACY WENDY TOYE
    OEDIPUS TYRANNUS HOVHANNES PILIKIAN
    A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY TOBY ROBINSON
       
1973 JOHN CLEMENTS THE DIRECTOR OF THE OPERA PETER DEWS
    THE SEAGULL

JONATHAN MILLER

    R LOVES J WENDY TOYE
    DANDY DICK JOHN CLEMENTS
       
1972 JOHN CLEMENTS THE BEGGAR'S OPERA ROBIN PHILLIPS
    THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA

JOHN CLEMENTS

    TAMING OF THE SHREW JONATHAN MILLER
    LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING ROBIN PHILLIPS
       
1971 JOHN CLEMENTS THE RIVALS JOHN CLEMENTS
    DEAR ANTOINE ROBIN PHILLIPS
    CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA ROBIN PHILLIPS
    REUNION IN VIENNA FRITH BANBURY
       
Year Artistic Director Production Show Director
1970 JOHN CLEMENTS PEER GYNT PETER COE
    VIVAT! VIVAT! REGINA PETER DEWS
    THE PROPOSAL JOHN CLEMENTS
    ARMS AND THE MAN JOHN CLEMENTS
    THE ALCHEMIST PETER DEWS
       
1969 JOHN CLEMENTS THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE PETER COE
    THE MAGISTRATE JOHN CLEMENTS
    THE COUNTRY WIFE ROBERT CHETWYN
    ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA PETER DEWS
       
1968 JOHN CLEMENTS THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AND HIS WIFE PETER USTINOV
    THE COCKTAIL PARTY ALEC GUINNESS
    THE TEMPEST DAVID JONES
    THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH PETER COE
       
1967 JOHN CLEMENTS THE FARMER'S WIFE JOHN CLEMENTS
    THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM WILLIAM CHAPPELL
    HEARTBREAK HOUSE JOHN CLEMENTS
    THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT PETER COE
       
1966 JOHN CLEMENTS THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE DESMOND O'DONOVAN
    THE FIGHTING COCK NORMAN MARSHALL
    THE CHERRY ORCHARD LINDSAY ANDERSON
    MACBETH MICHAEL BENTHALL
       
1965 LAURENCE OLIVIER ARMSTRONG'S LAST GOODNIGHT JOHN DEXTER &
WILLIAM GASKILL
    TRELAWNEY OF THE WELLS DESMOND O'DONOVAN
    MISS JULIE MICHAEL ELLIOTT
    BLACK COMEDY JOHN DEXTER
       
1964 LAURENCE OLIVIER THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN JOHN DEXTER
    THE DUTCH COURTESAN WILLIAM GASKILL
    OTHELLO JOHN DEXTER
       
1963 LAURENCE OLIVIER SAINT JOAN JOHN DEXTER
    UNCLE VANYA LAURENCE OLIVIER
    THE WORKHOUSE DONKEY STUART BURGE
       
1962 LAURENCE OLIVIER THE CHANCES LAURENCE OLIVIER
    THE BROKEN HEART LAURENCE OLIVIER
    UNCLE VANYA LAURENCE OLIVIER