- 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 startedPoetry International in 1963. Garland was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department (1962-74). He served as theArtistic Director for theChichester 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 withRex Harrison (about whom he wrote "The Incomparable Rex") and the musical "Billy" withMichael Crawford atDrury Lane , "Don Giovanni " and in Japan, Handel's opera "Ottone ". He directed his own play, "Brief Lives ", based on the life and writing ofJohn Aubrey , and starringRoy Dotrice in the premiere as well as the 2008 production andMichael Williams in an earlier revival. He also directedEileen Atkins in his own adaptation ofVirginia Woolf 's book "A Room of One's Own ".Recently Garland has directed
Simon Callow in "The Mystery of Charles Dickens" byPeter Ackroyd in a tour that culminated in Australia and Broadway, andJoan Collins in "Full Circle" by Alan Melville. Garland also worked withAlan Bennett , directing the original stage production of "Forty Years On "; and for television, directingPatricia 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 andRalph Richardson and his 1971 television film of "The Snow Goose " wonGolden 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 inWestminster 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 ofSussex poets
* "The Incomparable Rex" (1999), a memoir of Rex Harrison
*"Abstract & Brief Chronicles" (2007), a series of essays read by Patrick Garland himselfSelected 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 withChesney 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 GarlandMinerva Theatre Productions at Chichester Festival Theatre
*1992
** "Vita & Virginia " ... directed by Patrick Garland
*1993
** "Elvira '40 " ... directed by Patrick GarlandSelected other productions
** "
Kipling " by Brian Clark withAlec McCowen
** "Beecham byCaryl Brahms &Ned Sherrin
** "An Enormous Yes ", withAlan Bates from the writing ofPhilip Larkin ... adapted & directed by Patrick Garland.*2007 and 2008
** "Visiting Mr. Green " byJeff Baron withWarren Mitchell ... directed by Patrick Garland*2008
** "Brief Lives " ... written & directed by Patrick Garland withRoy Dotrice asJohn Aubrey .
** Dickens recital bySimon Callow at the 2008Edinburgh 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]
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