- John Tasker (theatre director)
Infobox Person
name = John Tasker
death_date = 1988
occupation = theatre directorJohn Tasker was at one time the lover of the English author, journalist, and broadcaster
Colin Spencer . They met inBrighton in 1957, when both were 24 years old. Their off-and-on two-year relationship dramatically changed when Spencer married archaeologistGillian Chapman in October 1959. Tasker went to Australia where he became a theatre director, and died of cancer in 1988. Tasker had arranged for his letters to be returned to Spencer. Upon re-reading them, Spencer published his book "Which of Us Two"citation |title=Which of Us Two? The Story of a Love Affair |first=Colin |last=Spencer |year=1990 |isbn=0-14-012823-9] as a form of atonement.Patrick White chose Tasker to produce the playThe Ham Funeral for the [http://www.adelaide.edu.au/theatreguild/past/60s/ University of Adelaide Theatre Guild] (premiere in Union Hall in 1961). White's life partnerManoly Lascaris acknowledged Tasker as the 'virus' that re-infected White with the excitement of theatre.,citation |title=Patrick White - A Life |first=David |last=Marr |year=1991 |publisher=Random House Australia, Sydney |isbn=0091827221] The Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle named their annual award for best freelance director after him.Theatre Productions
("incomplete list"):
1961 - "The Break"
1961 - "The Ham Funeral", by Patrick White (Union Hall)
1962 - "The Good Woman of Setzuan", by Bertolt Brecht (Union Hall)
1962 - "The Season at Sarsaparilla", by Patrick White (Union Hall)
1963 - "Oedipus Rex", by Sophocles (Union Hall)
1964 - "Night on Bald Mountain", by Patrick White (Union Hall)
1965 - "The Representative", by Rolf Hochhuth (Union Hall)
1965 - "Inadmissible Evidence", by
1968 - "America Hurrah!", by Van Itallie (New Theatre)
1968 - "The Boys in the Band", by Mart Crowley (the Playbox)
1969 - "Candy Stripe Balloon", revue starring Grahame Bond (Phillip Theatre)
1977 - "Don't Piddle against the Wind, Mate", by Kenneth Ross (Jane Street Theater )
1978 - "The Cassidy Album." (York Theatre)
1979 - "Rusty Bugles", by Sumner Locke Elliott (New Theatre)
1981 - "The Workroom", by Tom Kempinski (New Theatre)
1982 - "The Samseng and The Chettiars’ Daughter" (Singapore)
1982 - "Duet for One", by Tom Kempinski (Marian Street)
1983 - "Caravan", by Donald Macdonald (Marian Street)
1986 - "Absurd Person Singular", by Alan Ayckbourn (Northside)
1987 - "As Is", by William Hoffman (Seymour Downstairs)References
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