A Month in the Country

Theatre includes repertory at Traverse Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, and tour of Asia with Bristol Old Vic. In London: Wakefield Mystery Plays, The Possessed (Mermaid), The Seagull, The Bed Before Yesterday (Lyric), Maggie (Shaftesbury), The Square (New End), Why Bournemouth (King's Head), The Irish Hebrew Lesson (Almost Free). At the Royal Court: Anarchists, Uve Like Pigs, Skyvers, Crete and Sergeant Pepper, The Old Ones, Magnificence. Eclipse, Happy Days. RSC: London Assurance, Major Barbara, Twelfth Night. TV includes: plays by C P Taylor, Philip Purser, Don Haworth, Z Cars, A Legacy, A Hole in Babylon, Maria Marten. Films: Brown Ale with Gertie, Happy Days. Frequent radio work including membership of the Radio Drama Company.

Theatre: The Anatomist (Westminster Theatre), Ibsen Season (Criterion), season at Stratford-uponAvon, Watch on the Rhine (Aldwych), work with the Old Vic Theatre Company at the New, Valmouth (Lyric Hammersmith), Tartuffe (Greenwich), Winter Dancers (Royal Court), Vieux Carre (Piccadilly), Autumn Garden (Watford Palace), Television: Coronation Street, Crown Court, The History of Mr Polly, Last of the Summer Wine, House of Bernarda Alba, Jackanory, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Fair Stood the Wind for France, We The Accused, Radio: frequent broadcasts of drama and talks for many years,

Theatre includes: Passion Flower Hotel in the West End; Hamlet with Nicol Williamson in New York (New York Critics' Award for Most Promising Actress). For the RSC: Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet. TV includes: Girls in Uniform, The Wood Demon, The Couch, The Way of the World, Edward VII, A Pin to See the Peepshow, Madame Bovary, Lillie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans. Films include Hamlet, Polanski's Macbeth, Big Mack and Poor Clare, Penny Gold,

Nigel Terry (Mikhailo Alexandrovich Rakitin) Theatre includes repertory at Oxford Meadow Players, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre 69 Manchester, Crucible Sheffield, Welsh Drama Company. London: The Long and the Short and the Tall, Romeo and Juliet (Shaw Theatre), Big Wolf, The Fool (Royal Court), Kingdom Coming (Roundhouse), Rooted (Hampstead), Rashomon (Stratford East), A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Traps (Joint Stock at Royal Court). RSC: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Henry VI Part 3, Queen Christina, Sons of Light, The Women Pirates, Shout Across the River, Look Out … Here Comes Trouble, The Hang of the Gaol, Pericles, The Suicide, Julius Caesar, Baal. TV includes: Kenilworth, The Man Who Understood Women, Remote Control, Boy Meets Girl, Sherlock Holmes, The Marquise, South Bank Show on Edward Bond. Films: The Lion in Winter, Transfusion, A Cast of Ravens, Excalibur.

Theatre includes; repertory at Birmingham. At the Royal Court: Miniatures, Three Men For Colverton, Macbeth, Life Price, One at Night, The Farm. Riverside Studios: Scrape Off The Black, Black Man's Burden. NT; Equus. TV includes: The Witches of Pendle, Headmaster, People Uke Us, Thomas and Sarah, Three Days in Sczecyn, Three Men in a Boat, The Duchess of Duke Street, Crown Court, Coronation Street, Brideshead Revisited, The Best of British (on Peter Gill). Films: If, The Final Programme, Morgan A Suitable Case for Treatment, The French Lieutenant's Woman, O Lucky Man.

Has appeared in various commercials. and as Peter Pan in The Man Who Didn't Like Children (Thames TV)

Is making his first professional appearance.

Theatre: work in London includes appearing in thirty plays at the Mermaid, and directing eighteen others. For the NT work includes: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Uncle Vanya. At the RSC: Twelfth Night. Work in the West End includes: Lock Up Your Daughters, Blitz. TV includes: Secret Army, The Dick Emery Show, Sweeney, Backs to the Land, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Secret Army. Films include: Young Winston, Land That Time Forgot, Oh What A Lovely War, Julius Caesar, Poor Cow, Aces High.

Theatre includes: Crime Passionel, September Tide, Colombe, The Wild Duck, The Creditors, Fanny, Ghosts, Events in a Room Upstairs, and most recently, Before the Party. NT: Phaedra Britannica, Watch It Come Down, Tamburlaine The Great, Il Campiello, Counting the Ways, The Passion, Bedroom Farce (also in New York), Love Letters on Blue Paper. TV includes: In Search of the Nile, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Stalin, Shoulder to Shoulder, Vincent the Dutchman, The Microbe Hunters, Fall of Eagles, Georges Sand, Shades of Greene, Suez, Brideshead Revisited. Films include: Anna Karenina, The Man in the White Suit, The Sword and the Rose, The Horse's Mouth, Mr Topaze, Henry VIII, The Go-Between, The Boys from Brazil, Justices, Venom.

Theatre includes: repertory at Bristol Old Vic, Churchill Theatre Bromley, Nottingham Playhouse, In London: The Cherry Orchard (Riverside Studios), A Portrait of Dora (Theatre at New End), Television: Anna Karenina, Just William, Emily, Queen Victoria's Scandals, Invitations, Wuthering Heights, Seconds Out, Tales of the Unexpected, The Flipside of Dominick Hyde, Films: Holocaust 2000, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe, Eagle's Wing, Les Miserables. Death Watch, Possessions, Hammer House of Horror,

Theatre includes repertory at Ipswich, Canterbury, Liverpool, Windsor. Leatherhead, Royal Exchange Manchester. London: Rafferty's Chant (Mermaid), Forty Years On (Apollo). My Little Boy, My Big Girl (Fortune), Gone With the Wind (Drury Lane), Very Good Eddie (Piccadilly), His Monkey Wife (Hampstead), An Ideal Husband (Greenwich). Film: If. TV includes: Upstairs Downstairs, The Sweeney, Minder. The Professionals, Fallen Hero. Anna Karenina, Hamlet, Sense and Sensibility.

Theatre includes: repertory at Durham, Flying Blind (Royal Court), Midsummer Night's Dream (Scottish Opera). TV includes; Soldiers Talking Cleanly, The Camerons, Shadows on Our Skin, Rain on the Roof, Barriers, Mackenzie, The Professionals, The Quiet Days of Mrs Stafford, Films; Torquay Summer, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Theatre: includes repertory at Newcastle, Lincoln, Leatherhead, In London: Godspell (Wyndhams); work with fringe groups: Low Moan Spectacular, Pirate Jenny, Albany Empire, Mayday. TV: The Duchess of Duke Street, Love for Lydia, Send in the Girls, Matilda's England, The Racing Came, Penmarric, The Assassination Run, Barriers.

Theatre includes repertory at Leicester, Salisbury, Bristol, and Birmingham, where he played King Lear and The Master Builder. London: Mother's Day (Royal Court), The Changeling (Riverside). With the NT from 1965 to 1973, including; The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Trelawney of the Wells, Much Ado About Nothing, A Flea in Her Ear, Volpone, The Way of the World, As You Like It, The Beaux' Stratagem, The National Health, The Idiot, Jumpers, Richard II, The School for Scandal, The Front Page, Macbeth, Twelfth Night. TV includes The Knowledge, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Love for Lydia, Enemy at the Door, Bless Me Father, Dreams of Leaving. Film: The Elephant Man.

Theatre includes repertory at Lincoln Theatre Royal, Citizens Theatre Glasgow. London: Laughter, The Bukharin Play (Royal Court), Julius Caesar (Riverside). TV: As You Like It, The Borgias. Film: Flash Gordon.

Theatre includes repertory at Royal Exchange Manchester, Contact Theatre, Molecule Club tour. In London: The Middleman, and Dirty Work at the Crossroads (Orange Tree, Richmond).

Theatre: Trained at LAMDA. Repertory at Exeter, Worcester, Canterbury, Watford. TV: Unity, The Wilderness Years.

Theatre includes repertory at Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Chesterfield Civic, Nottingham Playhouse. In London: Mother's Day, Skoolplay, The London Cuckolds (Royal Court); An Ideal Husband, Don Juan (Greenwich); As You Like It, Plays Umbrella: Scrape Off The Black, Black Man's Burden (Riverside). TV: Upstairs Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Street, Malice Aforethought, Grange Hill, The Best of British: Peter Gill, Omnibus on Landseer. Films: One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, Full Circle, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.

Theatre includes seasons at Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham, Oxford, Theatre Workshop Stratford East. The Lion in Love, Sleepers' Den (Royal Court); One is One (Riverside). NT: Strife. TV includes: The Caretaker, Holocaust, Tales of the Unexpected, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Films: Hanover Street, The Awakening, Eye of the Needle, Superman, The Shout, Der Schwur des Soldaten Pooley.

Theatre: tours of The Beggar's Opera (Bubble Theatre), Jubilee Thro (Paine's Plough). London: Seven Girls (Open Space), Walking, Carnival War A Go Hot (Royal Court), Traitors (Hampstead). TV: Angels, Family Affair, Daughters of Albion. Film: Birth of the Beatles.

Theatre includes: repertory at Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse; toured with 7:84 Company in Occupations and Apricots, In London: long association with the Royal Court, including Edward Bond season, At the May Fair Theatre: Flashpoint, Riverside: Julius Caesar, Mother Country, NT: The Romans in Britain, TV includes: Blue Skies from Now On, The Naked Civil Servant, Billy. Films: The Land that Time Forgot, The Mouse and the Woman.

Theatre includes repertory at Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Crucible Sheffield, Nottingham Playhouse. In London: One is One (Riverside), Forget Me Not (Greenwich), Vieux Carre (Piccadilly), Amabel (Bush), pon Juan (Roundhouse). TV: Able's Will, Moss, Where the Heart Is, The Sweeney, The Professionals. Films: Le Lieutenant Karl, Hanover Street, The Wall. Recently directed Desperado Corner for Glasgow Citizens.

Theatre includes repertory at Windsor, Leeds Playhouse (Wedding Feast), Churchill Theatre Bromley (The Case of the Frightened Lady). In London: Parents Day (Globe), Loot, The Fool (Royal Court), The Changeling (Riverside). TV includes: David Copperfield, Chips With Everything, The Norman Conquests, Our Mutual Friend, Wings, Crime and Punishment, Frank Muir on Children, Man of Destiny.

Work at the Royal Court, where he was Associate Director from 1970 to 72, includes A Collier's Friday Night, The Local Stigmatic, The Ruffian on the Stair, A Provincial Life (which he also adapted), A Soldier's Fqrtune, The Daughter-in-Law,The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd,Life Price, The Duchess of Malfi, Crete and Sergeant Pepper, The Merry-Go-Round (which he also adapted), and his own plays Over Gardens Out, The Sleepers' Den, and Small Change, For the RSC: Twelfth Night. At Riverside Studios, where he was director from 1976 to 1980, directed As You Like It, Small Change, The Cherry Orchard, The Changeling, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Scrape Off The Black. Work abroad includes: Much Ado About Nothing, Hedda Gablet,and Macbeth at Stratford Ontario, Landscape and Silence at Lincoln Centre, New York.

Trained at St Martin's School of Art, Central School of Art, Work includes: designing over 40 plays at Victoria Theatre Stoke on Trent. In London: Ken Campbell's Old King Cole (Stratford East), Mike Leigh's Ecstasy, and Uncle Vanya (Hampstead), Measure for Measure. Julius Caesar, and the Plays Umbrella Season for Peter Gill at the Riverside Studios. Member of the British theatre designers who won 1st prize at the 1979 Prague Quadriennale Exhibition.

Work at Nottingham Playhouse, for Joint Stock, and at the Edinburgh Festival, In London: Krapp's Last Tape, Not I, The Merry-Go-Round, Sense of Detachment (Royal Court); in the West End: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Lenny, City Sugar, Comedians, Teeth 'n' Smiles, The Rocky Horror Show, For the RSC: Twelfth Night, Cousin Vladimir, At the Riverside: The Cherry Orchard, The Changeling, Measure for Measure, NT: Weapons of Happiness, The Madras House, Plenty, The Crucible, Has worked also in Norway, Japan, Germany, Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Australia; as well as for the Welsh National Opera and English National Opera.

Theatre music includes Twelfth Night (RSC), As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, The Changeling, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar (all for Peter Gill at the Riverside), A Fair Quarrel (NT), Duchess of Malfi (Royal Exchange Manchester). TV includes: Hitting Town. Last Summer, Out. Six Plays by Alan Bennett. Fox, Shoestring, The History Man, Rain on the Roof, Bloody Kids; Going Gently, Camero. Films include: Private Road, Waterloo Bridge Handicap, Hussy. Dead End; Currently working on Parole.

Born 1909 in Riga. USSR. First President of Wolfson College, Oxford, 1966 to 1975; Fellow of All Souls; Fellow of New College from 1938 to 1950; Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford from 1957 to 1967. Served as President of the British Academy from1974 to 1978. Honorary Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Letters. Holds honorary degrees from Universities of Brandeis, Cambridge, Columbia, East Anglia, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, London, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. Publications include: Karl Marx. translation of First Love by Turgenev. The Age of Enlightenment. Four Essays of Liberty. Vico and Herder. Concepts and Categories, Against the Current, Russian Thinkers. Personal Impressions.

Grateful thanks to John Burgess for writing and research.

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