Adrian Noble

Infobox Person
name = Adrian Noble


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birth_date = birth date|1950|07|19|mf=y
birth_place = Chichester, Sussex, England
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other_names = Adrian Keith Noble
known_for = Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director and chief executive
occupation = Theatre director
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Adrian Keith Noble (born Chichester, Sussex, England, 19 July 1950 [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0633542/maindetails Birthdate confirmation] : IMDB.com website. Retrieved on January 27 2008.] ) is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.

Education and career

After he graduated from Chichester High School, he studied at the University of Bristol, where he studied English. He began his professional career as a director at the London Drama Centre. In 1976 he moved on to the Bristol Old Vic and worked at the same time for the TV. From 1980 till 1981 he worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, producing the "Duchess of Malfi", which won him the London Drama Critics' Award and the Circle Theatre Award (also for his production of "Doktor Faust", and as Best Director for "A Doll's House" in 1980).

During his career, he received 120 Olivier Award nominations.Fact|date=March 2008 In 1980 he became assistant director at the RSC where his first production was Ostrowski's Two Sisters. In 1988 he was promoted to director, but in 1989 he took a break and left the company. He then worked for the Peter Hall Company, directing the "Fairy Queen". He also worked at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Kent Opera and directed a production of "Giovanni" in a Paris circus tent.

After this time of searching for his independence, Noble returned to the RSC in March 1991, this time as artistic director. In 1993, he won the Globe Award for Best Director for "The Winter's Tale". His production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1994) was popular enough to be revived two years later, and Noble also turned it into a film adaptation in 1996. He resigned from the RSC in 2002, stating that "it is now time for me to seek new artistic challenges". [http://www.rsc.org.uk/press/421_501.asp?pagename=information/press/whuicpzokc/ "Adrian Noble to stand down as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Royal Shakespeare Company"] , April 24 2002: Royal Shakespeare Company website. Retrieved on January 27 2008.]

He has also directed several successful London West End musicals including "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "The Secret Garden", and adapted Henrik Ibsen's play, "Brand", for the London theatre in 2003. [ [http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_781528796/Noble_Adrian_Keith.html Biography] : MSN Encarta website. Retrieved on January 27 2008.] In 2007, he took Jean-Paul Sartre's "Kean" to Malvern, Bath and Brighton, before it transferred to the West End in the spring of that year. [ [http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/15420 "Antony Sher to star in Sartre's Kean"] , 2007: The Stage website. Retrieved on January 27 2008.] In 2008 he directed Hamlet for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

Theatre (selected productions)

* "The Duchess of Malfi" (1980)
* "A Doll's House" (1980)
* "King Lear" (RSC, 1982)
* "Antony and Cleopatra" (The Pit, London, 1983)
* "A New Way to Pay Old Debts" (The Pit, London, 1984)
* "The Comedy of Errors" (Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1984)
* "Measure for Measure" (Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1984)
* "Henry V" (RSC, 1984)
* "The Desert Air" (RSC, 1984)
* "As You Like It" (RSC, 1985)
* "Kiss Me, Kate" (Old Vic, London, 1987)
* "Three Sisters" (Gate Theatre, 1990)
* "The Winter's Tale" (RSC, 1993)
* "Macbeth" (RSC, 1988, and 1993)
* "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (RSC, 1995)
* "Romeo and Juliet" (RSC, 1995)
* "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" (RSC, 2002)
* "Brand" (London tour, 2003)
* "Kean" (London, 2007)
* "MacBeth (opera) (The Met, 2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.whatsonstage.com/dl/page.php?page=vote&key=NOBLE_MAY02&reshow=yes Has Adrian Done Right by the RSC?]
* [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2002/no3_billington.htm Who shot Adrian Noble?]
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