Patrick Garland

Patrick Garland (born April 10, 1935) is an actor and a director of British theatre, television and film, and a writer.

With Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne Garland started Poetry International in 1963. Garland was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department (1962-74). He served as the Artistic Director for the Chichester Festival Theatre twice between 1981 and 1985 and from 1990 and 1994, where he directed over twenty productions. In 1980 he was responsible for the York Mystery Plays. Among many productions, he directed the revival of "My Fair Lady" on Broadway in the early 1980s with Rex Harrison (about whom he wrote "The Incomparable Rex") and the musical "Billy" with Michael Crawford at Drury Lane, "Don Giovanni" and in Japan, Handel's opera "Ottone". He directed his own play, "Brief Lives", based on the life and writing of John Aubrey, and starring Roy Dotrice in the premiere as well as the 2008 production and Michael Williams in an earlier revival. He also directed Eileen Atkins in his own adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book "A Room of One's Own".

Recently Garland has directed Simon Callow in "The Mystery of Charles Dickens" by Peter Ackroyd in a tour that culminated in Australia and Broadway, and Joan Collins in "Full Circle" by Alan Melville. Garland also worked with Alan Bennett, directing the original stage production of "Forty Years On"; and for television, directing Patricia Routledge in the second "Talking Heads" and Bennett himself in "Telling Tales".

Garland directed the film of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson and his 1971 television film of "The Snow Goose" won Golden Globe: "Best Movie made for TV".

Garland has devised and presented several performances for the Charleston Festival.

Garland directed "Fanfare for Elizabeth" at Covent Garden on Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday and in 1989 he directed the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Olivier.

Garland is married to the actress Alexandra Bastedo.

Books by Patrick Garland

* "Brief Lives" (1967)
* "The Wings of The Morning" (1989)
* "Oswald The Owl" (1990)
* "Angels in The Sussex Air" (1995), an anthology of Sussex poets
* "The Incomparable Rex" (1999), a memoir of Rex Harrison
*"Abstract & Brief Chronicles" (2007), a series of essays read by Patrick Garland himself

Selected plays by Patrick Garland

* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/GarlandPatrick.htm selected plays by Patrick Garland]

Chichester Festival Theatre Productions by Patrick Garland

* 1975
** "An Enemy of the People" ... directed by Patrick Garland
** "Monsieur Perrichon's Travels" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1977
** "The Apple Cart" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1978
** "A Woman of No Importance" ... directed by Patrick Garland
** "Look After Lulu" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1981
** "The Cherry Orchard" ... directed by Patrick Garland
** "The Mitford Girls" ... directed by Patrick Garland
** "Underneath the Arches, by Patrick Garland, Brian Glanville" & Roy Hudd in association with Chesney Allen ... directed by Roger Redfarn
* 1982
** "On the Rocks" ... directed by Jack Emery and Patrick Garland
** "Cavell" ... directed by Patrick Garland
** "Goodbye, Mr Chips" ... directed by Patrick Garland and Chris Selbie
* 1983
** "As You Like It" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1984
** "Forty Years On" ... directed by Patrick Garland
** "The Merchant of Venice" ... directed by Patrick Garland
** "The Philanthropist" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1989
** "Victory" ... directed by Patrick Garland and Matthew Francis
** "Tovarich" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1992
** "King Lear in New York" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1993
** "Pickwick" ... directed by Patrick Garland
* 1994
** "Pygmalion" ... directed by Patrick Garland
*1996
** "Beatrix" ... written and directed by Patrick Garland
*1998
** "Chimes at Midnight" ... directed by Patrick Garland

Minerva Theatre Productions at Chichester Festival Theatre

*1992
** "Vita & Virginia" ... directed by Patrick Garland
*1993
** "Elvira '40" ... directed by Patrick Garland

Selected other productions

** "Kipling" by Brian Clark with Alec McCowen
** "Beecham by Caryl Brahms & Ned Sherrin
** "An Enormous Yes", with Alan Bates from the writing of Philip Larkin... adapted & directed by Patrick Garland.

*2007 and 2008
** "Visiting Mr. Green" by Jeff Baron with Warren Mitchell ... directed by Patrick Garland

*2008
** "Brief Lives" ... written & directed by Patrick Garland with Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey.
** Dickens recital by Simon Callow at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.

External links

* [http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/477866/two-old-stagers-find-vigour-in-brief-lives.thtml "Spectator" article (2008) on Roy Dotrice & Patrick Garland & "Brief Lives"]
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* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays?forename=Patrick&surname=GARLAND&job=Actor&pid=1880&image_view=Yes&x=19&y=17 Patrick Garland as actor, Theatre Archive, University of Bristol]
* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays?forename=Patrick&surname=GARLAND&job=Author&pid=1258&image_view=Yes&x=19&y=17 Patrick Garland as author, Theatre Collection, University of Bristol]
* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=Patrick&surname=GARLAND&job=Director&pid=315&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 Patrick Garland as director, Theatre Archive, University of Bristol]