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Mary Ann "Buzz" Goodbody (25 June 1946 – 12 April 1975)〔Jennifer Uglow, et al. ''The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography'', London: Macmillan Papermac, 1999, p.232. As the press/opening night of Buzz Goodbody's production of ''Hamlet'' was 8 April 1975, the confusingly rendered date at the end of the entry in the source must apply to the day Buzz Goodbody died.〕 was an English theatre director. Associated with the Royal Shakespeare Company for almost all of her short career, Goodbody is remembered for her sometimes politically charged experimental work and for establishing the RSC's first studio theatre in Stratford, The Other Place ==Early life== Raised in St John's Wood and Hampstead, London, Goodbody gained her nickname as a toddler. as a consequence of her very active and curious inclinations.〔Alycia Smith Howard (''Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place'' ), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, p.11〕 Her father was a barrister who spent a considerable amount of time in Africa and the far east, with the result that Goodbody and her brother were largely brought up by their mother and nanny.〔 She was educated at Roedean and the newly founded Sussex University.〔Colin Chambers ("Notes: Buzz Goodbody" ), ''Marxism Today'', April 1980〕 A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain〔 from the age of 15, according to her brother, she was very much against applying for a place at Oxford or Cambridge.〔Smith Howard, p.12〕 Acting in university student productions was frustrating for her. "All the best roles", those she found interesting such as Henry V, "are written for blokes", Goodbody once noted, and this was the catalyst leading her towards directing plays as a career.〔Smith Howard, p.13〕 While at Sussex, the main component of her degree was English Literature, she adapted and staged Dostoyevsky's ''Notes from the Underground'' as part of her Honours Thesis. This production won an award at the National Student Drama Festival and eventually transferred to the West End. In September 1967 she married Edward Buscome, a University of Sussex film student; the marriage ended in divorce. Goodbody had first joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1967 as director John Barton's personal assistant, after he had been impressed by a London performance of ''Notes from the Underground''. Some tasks Barton initially gave her suggested the appointment was not quite as positive as it seemed, but Goodbody reassured herself that it was at least a foot in the door at the RSC.〔 As well as undertaking research for Barton, she also served as a ''dramaturg'' for Terry Hands, and officially became an assistant director from 1969. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buzz Goodbody」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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