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He is a founding father of modern Scottish theatre, reflecting his creation of the Citizens Theatre, appointment as the first chairman of the Scottish committee of the Arts Council, and inaugurator of Scotland's first College of Drama in 1950, now part of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. He was instrumental in establishing the ...
Giles Pollock Havergal CBE (born 9 June 1938, in Edinburgh) is a theatre director and actor, opera stage director, teacher, and adaptor.He was artistic director of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre from 1969 until he stepped down in 2003, one of the triumvirate of directors at the theatre, alongside Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald.
TAG's original artistic director was Christine Redington, who was at the helm for three years until 1971. Since then a number of high-profile directors have worked for the company, including Ian Wooldridge (1978–84), Ian Brown (1984–88) now at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Alan Lyddiard who left TAG to become artistic director of Northern Stage Ensemble in Newcastle (1988–92), and Tony ...
Laurance Rudic (born 10 September 1952) is a British theatre artist best known for his long association as a leading member of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre company - 1972-1996. For 34 years, (1969–2004) 'The Citz' as it came to be known, was run by a trio of maverick geniuses - Giles Havergal , Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald .
Amateur theatre companies in Scotland have generally presented repertoire in English, Lowland Scots and, more occasionally, Scottish Gaelic. The SCDA was founded during the period of the Scottish Renaissance , a time of increasing calls to revive many of the cultural and political institutions in Scotland which were perceived as moribund at ...
Travels with My Aunt is a 1989 comedy adapted by Scottish dramatist by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene's novel of the same title.The play was first staged at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow on 10 November 1989 with Havergal, Derwent Watson, Patrick Hannaway, and Christopher Gee, and has been performed in London West End theatres, off-Broadway in New York, and in San Francisco.
William Tulloch Paterson was born in Glasgow on 3 June 1945. [1] Paterson was raised in Dennistoun by his father, a plumber, and his mother, a hairdresser. [2] He states that his interest in acting began with a school trip to the Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals in 1961. [2]
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Theatre Royal in Dumfries, the oldest working theatre in Scotland. Rehearsal room at the Citizens in Glasgow. Theatre in Scotland refers to the history of the performing arts in Scotland, or those written, acted and produced by Scots. Scottish theatre generally falls into the Western theatre tradition, although ...