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Declan Donnellan

DECLAN DONNELLAN

  (1953 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Berlin Associates  represented by Fiona Williams

Declan Donnellan was born in England of Irish parents in 1953. He grew up in London and read English and Law at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1978. He and his partner, Nick Ormerod, formed Cheek by Jowl in 1981 and he has directed 25 productions for the company, many have which have toured all over the world. In 1989 he was made associate Director of the Royal National Theatre in London where his productions have included Fuenteovenjuna, Sweeney Todd, the Mandate and both pArts of angels in America. For the Royal Shakespeare Company he has directed the School for Scandal, King Lear (academy 2002) and Great expectations. He has also directed Le Cid for the avignon Festival, Falstaff for the Salzburg Festival and the ballet of Romeo and Juliet for the Bolshoi in Moscow. Other work in Russia includes the Winter's Tale for the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg. In 2000 he formed a company of actors in Moscow, under the auspices of the Chekhov Festival, whose productions include Boris Godunov, Twelfth Night and Three Sisters. He has written a play, Lady Betty, which was performed by Cheek by Jowl in 1989. He has also adapted Don't Fool with Love by de Musset, antigone by Sophocles, the Mandate by erdman and Masquerade by Lermontov. He has received awards in Moscow, Paris, New York and London, including three Laurence Olivier awards - Director of the Year (1987), Best Director of a Play (1995) and the Olivier for Outstanding achievement (1990). In 1992 he was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Warwick and in 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work in France. First published in Russian (2001), Declan Donnellon's book the actor and the Target has subsequently been published in English (2002, reprinted 2005), French and Spanish.

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         Antigone         Blind Men, The         Candlestick, The         Don't Fool With Love         Door Must Be Kept Open Or Shut, A         Great Expectations         Lady Betty         Mandate, The         Masquerade         Vanity Fair

Antigone

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles

1st Produced:
Old Vic Theatre, London    1999

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Blind Men, The

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Original Playwright - Michel De Ghelderode

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Candlestick, The

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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset Adapt/trans Declan Donnellan & Peter Meyer

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Absolute Classics, Bath,    -

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Don't Fool With Love

Synopsis:
Don't Fool with Love, written in 1834, is set against a backdrop of rural France and peopled by a host of colourful characters

Notes:
Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset Adapt/trans Declan Donnellan & Peter Meyer

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Absolute Classics, Bath,    -

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Door Must Be Kept Open Or Shut, A

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Original Playwright - Alfred de Musset Adapt/trans Declan Donnellan & Peter Meyer

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Absolute Classics, Bath,    -

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Great Expectations

Synopsis:
a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict forever changes the life of the orphaned Pip. Turning his back on his humble beginnings as a blacksmith's apprentice, he strives to better himself and become a gentleman, unaware of the hidden dangers that await him

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adapted by Nick Ormerod And Declan Donnellan from the novel by Charles Dickens

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Male:  14            Female:  7            Other:  2b

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Lady Betty

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Mandate, The

Synopsis:
erdman's weapon, as in his later the Suicide, is farce: the plot suggests Gogol crossed with Ray Cooney. We watch, astonished, as a family of ex-grocers tries to marry into a group of closet Tsarist romantics. the dowry for the daughter, however, has to be a bona fide communist. So we see the petty bourgeoisie frantically seeking to rustle up a group of fake proletarian relatives and Pavel, the son of the house, brandishing a mandate to prove he is a genuine party member. But, like everything in erdman's world, even that turns out to be less than it seems. - Michael Billington, Guardian

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Original Playwright - Nikolai Erdman

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National Theatre, London

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Masquerade

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Original Playwright - Mikhail Lermontov

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Vanity Fair

Synopsis:
It is about a sex obsessed, money obsessed, celebrity obsessed society - a parable for the modern day

Notes:
adapted by Nick Ormerod And Declan Donnellan from the novel by Thackery

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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