Much Ado About Nothing

Theatre includes: Dirty Linen (Arts), Saint Joan (Prospect at the Old Vic), The Old One-Two (Soho Poly). NT: The Passion, Plenty, The Philanderer, The Iceman Cometh. TV includes: When The Boat Comes In, The Naked Civil Servant, Destiny, An Englishman's Castle, Suez, The Cherry Orchard, PQ17, Stalky & Co, The Country, Bognor, All Creatures Great and Small, Fallen Hero, The House of Caradus. Films: Devices and Desires, Sweeney Two, The Elephant Man.

Theatre includes: in London: Tarantara, Tarantara (Westminster & Phoenix), The Journey (Roundhouse), The Government Inspector, Romeo and Juliet, The 88 (Old Vic). TV: Second City Firsts, Enemy at the Door, The Upchat Connection, The Crime of Captain Colhurst, The Borgias, Into the Labyrinth. Film: The Planet Suite. Numerous radio plays.

Theatre includes in London: Widowers' Houses, King Lear, The Alchemist (all transferred from Nottingham), The Philanthropist (also in New York), West of Suez, The Great Exhibition, Something's Burning, The Norman Conquests, Bloomsbury, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure, Play, Tishoo. NT: Plunder, The Philanderer, Betrayal, Othello, Sisterly Feelings, Man and Superman. TV Includes: An Affair of Honour, Mrs Warren's Profession, The Sullen Sisters (Country Matters), Song of Songs, The Pearcross Girls, King Lear, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Norman Conquests, Abie's Will, Othello. Films: Joseph Andrews, The French Lieutenant's Woman.

Theatre includes in London: The Cherry Orchard (Riverside), A Portrait of Dora (New End). NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan. TV: 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 in 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). NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan. TV includes: Upstairs Downstairs, The Sweeney, Minder, Fallen Hero, Anna Karenina, Hamlet, Sense and Sensibility. Film: If.

Theatre includes in London: Not Drowning But Waving (Greenwich), The Norman Conquests (Greenwich & West End), Zoo Story (Regent's Park), Otherwise Engaged, Just Between Ourselves, Alice's Boys (West End). RSC: When Thou Art King, Henry VIII, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, Major Barbara. NT: Hamlet, Saint Joan, The Recruiting Officer, Andorra, Philoctetes, Othello, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, Mother Courage, Love for Love, Juno and the Paycock, The Storm, Betrayal, Close of Play, Richard III, Othello, Sisterly Feelings, The Life of Galileo (London Drama Critics' Award for Best Actor). TV includes: Eyeless in Gaza, The Other One, The Seagull; most recently: The Breadwinner.

Theatre includes in London: Events in an Upper Room (ICA), Dear Daddy (Ambassadors), Pinch Me Not (Greenwich), The Irish Hebrew Lesson (Almost Free & NT Platform), Flying Blind, The Key Tag (Royal Court), Measure for Measure (Riverside), James Joyce and Co (King's Head). NT: Don Juan, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. TV: Shelley, I Claudius, Disraeli, Escape Into Thin Air, Film: The Awakening.

Theatre includes repertory at Glasgow Citizen's, Cambridge, Mold Theatre Clwyd, Ipswich, Ludlow Festival, Chichester Festival. In London: Stripwell (Royal Court), She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals (Greenwich), Hamlet (Stratford East). TV includes: Chips with Everything, French Without Tears, The Cost of Loving, Wings, Diary of Bridget Hitler, Cousin Phyllis. Films: Galileo, The Europeans, Reds. Has worked extensively in radio.

Theatre includes in London: The Love of a Good Man (Royal Court), Look Back in Anger (Royal Court & Criterion). RSC: Cousin Vladimir, Hang of the Gaol, Coriolanus. NT: Grand Manoeuvres, Equus, Lark Rise. TV: Yes Minister, Churchill and the Generals, I Claudius, Edward and Mrs Simpson, Edward VII, Crown Court, Tales of the Unexpected. Roger Doesn't Live Here Any More, Badgers by Gaslight. Gipsy Cottage, The Wilderness Years.

Theatre includes in London: Live Like Pigs, Julius Caesar, Crete and Sergeant Pepper, Marie and Bruce (Royal Court), Fat Harold (New End), Rashomon (Stratford East), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Mad World My Masters, Epsom Downs, Fanshen (Joint Stock), AII Along the Watchtowers (ICA), Measure for Measure (Riverside), Tom Fool (Half Moon), Plugged Into History (7: 84). NT at the Comedy: The Crucible. TV includes: Birthday, Jamie on a Flying Visit, Jazz Age, Seven Deadly Virtues, Plugged Into History, The Roses of Eyam, Murder Must Advertise, Stronger than the Sun, One of these Nights, Light, Autumn Sunshine, Kinvig. Films: Porridge, Long Good Friday.

Theatre includes in London: long association with the Royal Court, including Edward Bond Season. May Fair Theatre: Flashpoint. Riverside: Julius Caesar, Mother Country. NT: The Romans in Britain, A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. TV includes: Blue Skies from Now On, The Naked Civil Servant, Billy. Films: The Land That Time Forgot, The Mouse and the Woman, If.

Theatre includes in London: The Streets of London (Stratford East), Whose Life Is It Anyway (Savoy), Time and the Conways (Greenwich). TV: Breakaway Girls, Goodbye Darling, Danger UXB, Kids, Coronation Street, The Professionals, A Fine Romance.

Theatre includes at the Royal Court: Miniatures, Three Men for Colverton, Macbeth, Life Price, One at Night, The Farm. Riverside: Scrape off the Black, Black Man's Burden. NT: Equus, A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. TV includes: The Witches of Pendle. Headmaster, People Like Us, Thomas and Sarah, Three Days in Sczecyn, Three Men in a Boat, The Duchess of Duke Street, Brideshead Revisited, The Best of British (on Peter Gill). Films: If, The Final Programme, Morgan, The French Lieutenant's Woman, O Lucky Man.

Theatre includes at the Royal Court: Mother's Day, Skoolplay, The London Cuckolds; Greenwich: An Ideal Husband, Don Juan; Riverside: Scrape off the Black, Black Man's Burden. NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan. TV: Upstairs Downstairs, The Duchess of Duke Street, Malice Aforethought, Grange Hill, The Best of British (on Peter Gill). Films: One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, Full Circle, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.

Theatre includes repertory at Crucible Sheffield, national tour of Once a Catholic; Glass Houses (Royal Court). TV: Chance of a Lifetime. Juliet Bravo, Coronation Street. Film: Absolution.

Theatre includes national tours of These Foolish Things and Vanity; Mr Wilberforce MP (Westminster), The Italian Straw Hat (Camden Festival). NT: The Shoemakers' Holiday, Man and Superman.

Theatre includes in London: Bequest to the Nation (Haymarket), Corunna (Theatre Upstairs), The Changing Room, Life Class, What the Butler Saw (Royal Court and West End), Circle of Glory (Prospect). RSC: Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It. NT: The Passion, The Iceman Cometh, The Long Voyage Home, Lark Rise, The World Turned Upside Down, Has Washington Legs, The Crucible. TV: Shakespeare or Bust, Three for the Fancy, The Fishing Party, Sounding Brass, Porridge, The Likely Lads, Speech Day, People from the Forest, Midsummer Night's Dream, Send in the Girls. Films: Kes, Brannigan, Absolution, Trial by Combat, Quilp, Jabberwocky, The Great Train Robbery, Joseph Andrews, O Lucky Man, Sweeney, American Werewolf in London. Has written for TV: Keep an Eye on Albert, Thicker Than Water, School in Time, Sunshine in Brixton.

Theatre includes 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 & NT Platform). Royal Court. Anarchists, Live Like Pigs, Skyvers, Magnificence, Eclipse, Happy Days. RSC: London Assurance, Major Barbara, Twelfth Night. NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. TV includes: plays by C. P. Taylor, Philip Purser, Don Haworth, A Legacy, A Hole in Babylon, Maria Marten. Films: Brown Ale With Gertie, Happy Days. Frequent radio work including membership of Radio Drama Company.

Theatre includes work at Oxford Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic, Guildford. For Prospect: Staircase, Love's Labour's Lost, King Lear; Greenwich: Rosmersholm; Riverside: Measure for Measure. TV includes: The Forsyte Sage, and recently: The Life of Shakespeare, Frontiers of War, Henry VIII, Timon of Athens, The Winter's Tale. Films include: Running Scared, The Fourteen, Holocaust.

Theatre includes in London: Laughter, The Bukharin Play (Royal Court), Julius Caesar (Riverside). NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. TV: As You Like It, The Borgias. Film: Flash Gordon.

Theatre includes repertory at Southwold, Basingstoke, Newbury, Farnham; Charley's Aunt at Chichester; tour of The Seagull; Macbeth at Old Vic. TV: Jack Be Nimble.

Al Ashton (First Watch) Theatre includes: repertory at Belgrade Coventry, Second City Theatre Company, Birmingham, Portable Touring Company, Leicester. TV: Fallen Hero, Remembrance. Has written several plays including two for BBC radio.

TV includes: Hunting Tower, The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Pride and Prejudice, Ann Frank, Poor Jenny, Sergeant Cribb, King Arthur, The Life of John Keats, The Other Arf, 1001 Nights. Films: The Stud, The Day Christ Died, Felix Krull.

Theatre includes two years with Glasgow Citizens including The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Twelfth Night, and tour to London with Don Juan; work with Impact Theatre Company Leeds.

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 Fortune, 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. 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 Gabler, Macbeth (Stratford Ontario), Landscape, Silence (Lincoln Centre, New York). NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan.

Alison Chitty (Designer) Work includes designing over 40 plays at Victoria Theatre Stoke on Trent. In London: Old King Cole (Stratford East), Ecstasy, Uncle Vanya (Hampstead), Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Plays Umbrella Season (Riverside). Member of the British theatre designers who won 1st prize at 1979 Prague Quadriennale Exhibition. NT: A Month in the Country, Don Juan.

Theatre music includes Twelfth Night (RSC), As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, The Changeling, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar (Riverside), A Fair Quarrel, A Month in the Country, Don Juan (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, Camera. Films include: Private Road, Waterloo Bridge Handicap, Hussy, Dead End, Parole.

Recently lit shows at Oxford Playhouse, New End Hampstead, King's Head, Arts. NT: Overruled (Young Vic), Crossing Niagara, Bloody Neighbours (ICA), Emigres, Troilus and Cressida (with David Hersey), Bread (Young Vic), Strawberry Fields, Camilla Ringbinder Show, Bow Down, The Passion (with William Dudley), Half Life, Love Letters on Blue Paper, Herod (Cottesloe).