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Richard Williams is a theatre director, producer and teacher working mainly in the areas of dramatic and lyric presentation. Richard Williams’ career has concerned classics, new plays, music theatre and opera productions. In a directing career lasting for 25 years he has directed nearly 200 productions. He has been Artistic Director of four varied and successful theatre companies - Contact Theatre Manchester, where he was awarded Best Director Award two years running, The Oxford Stage Company, Unicorn-Arts London and Liverpool Playhouse. His varied opera work includes seventeen years as director of opera at The Dartington International Music Festival as well as a flourishing freelance career.〔(Richard Williams South West Music School bio )〕 While at Contact Theatre he worked with such talents as Imelda Staunton, Roger Allam Rik Mayall and Oscar winner Steven Warbeck. He directed seven major Shakespeare revivals and commissioned new plays from Adrian Mitchell, Charles Causley, Peter Flannery among others. During his five years as artistic director he established Contact Theatre as a regional centre of theatre for a young audience – a “Young Vic of the north of England”. He established a thriving schools programme and community programme which included work with senior citizens. Over the next five years his work at The Oxford Playhouse Company included directing Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle with TV star Anita Dobson and Sylvester McCoy (later Dr. Who on BBC TV), producing The Seagull with John Hurt and Vanessa Redgrave and Airbase with Greta Scachi and Mark Rylance all of which transferred to The West End. He also directed Hamlet with David Threlfall which opened at Elsinore Castle before embarking on a world tour. He then became artistic director of the Unicorn Children’s Theatre at The Arts theatre in London. At The Unicorn-Arts he was responsible for introducing The Reduced Shakespeare Company to London audiences as well as working with international pianist Joanna MacGregor on a new adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute. He commissioned new plays from Liz Lochhead and Mark Ravenshill among others. He was given Barclays Regional Theatre Awards and The Liverpool Echo Awards in recognition of his work at Liverpool Playhouse. He has directed in London's West End, notably with his long running version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Westminster Theatre), Winnie the Pooh and the musical Pocket Orchestra written by comedy star Graeme Garden. He directed key components of the Deloitte Festival at the Royal Opera House in 2010. His opera work includes extensive directing of the Baroque and Early Music repertoire including Dido and Aeneas (Garden Opera Company), King Arthur (Trinity College), Medee and Pygmalion (Dartington Festival). He has also directed many twentieth century operas, particularly Britten’s, including a highly acclaimed The Turn of the Screw. Lat year he directed Carmen for the St. Magnus Festival in the Orkney's, Vivaldi’s L’Olipiade which opened in Israel and toured nationally, and The Chalk Legend, a large scale community based opera with 350 performers as part of the Cultural Olympiad In addition to his directing career in the UK he has worked in New York, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa and The Philippines. He has also written six plays professionally produced in London. He is a highly regarded teacher and has worked at most of the major drama schools in the UK - RADA, Drama Centre, East 15, Rose Bruford, LIPA. He is currently Director of The Foundation Course in Performance at Drama Centre London. Williams' most recent work includes directing the British premiere of Vivaldi’s opera L’Olimpiade at The Eilat and Bath Festivals, as well as continuing his relationship with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra by writing the libretto for a new opera, Chalk Legend. ==References== 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「Richard Williams (theatre director)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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