RICHARD EYRE
- The Last Cigarette - Director -Festival 2009
Biography
As Artistic Director of the NT (1988–97) his productions included Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, Racing Demon, Richard III, Night of the Iguana, Skylight, La Grande Magia, John Gabriel Borkman, King Lear and The Invention of Love. His theatre and opera work since includes Amy’s View, The Crucible and Mary Poppins on Broadway, Le Nozze di Figaro in Aix-en-Provence, Vincent in Brixton and The Reporter at the RNT, and his own adaptations of Les Mains Sales and Hedda Gabler.
Film and television work includes Comedians, Tumbledown, Suddenly Last Summer, The Ploughman’s Lunch, Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal, The Other Man and Changing Stages, a six-part look at twentieth century theatre which he wrote and presented.
He has published three books, including National Service, a journal of his time at the NT. He has received five Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, three Critics Circle Awards and a BAFTA. He was knighted in 1997.
