English playwright (born 1936)
James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright.
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Early life Rudkin was born in London . Coming from a family of strict evangelical Christians ,[1] King Edward's School, Birmingham and read Mods and Greats at St Catherine's College, Oxford . Beginning to write during national service in the Royal Corps of Signals , Rudkin taught Latin, Greek and music at North Bromsgrove High School in Worcestershire until 1964,[2] [3]
Career Following the success of his first play Afore Night Come Aeschylus , Roger Vitrac , the libretto of Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron Western Theatre Ballet 's Sun into Darkness (Sadlers Wells 1963)[4] Gordon Crosse 's comic opera , The Grace of Todd .[2]
Rudkin's major works for the stage include Ashes (1974), The Sons of Light (written in 1965 though not staged until 1975), The Triumph of Death (1981) and The Saxon Shore (1986). His associations with the RSC also led him to translate the Hippolytus Euripides for the company in 1978, having translated the author's Hecuba [2]
He has written for television, including The Stone Dance (1963), Children Playing (1967), House of Character (1968)[4] Birmingham Rep as No Title in 1974), Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage (1969), Bypass (1972), Atrocity (1973), the Alan Clarke -directed Penda's Fen Artemis 81 No Accounting for Taste (1960), Gear Change (1967),[2] Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin François Truffaut 's Fahrenheit 451
He has also written a volume in the British Film Institute 's "Film Classics" series, a 2005 study of Carl Theodor Dreyer 's Vampyr [5]
Works
Stage plays Afore Night Come Royal Shakespeare Company at the Arts Theatre , directed by Clifford Williams (1962)Burglars , a short children's play originally written for radio, Oval House Theatre (1968)The Filth Hunt , one-act play , InterAction at the Almost Free Theatre (1972)Ashes , Stadsteater Hamburg (1973), Open Space Theatre (1974), staged off-Broadway in 1977 and winner of an Obie award [6] The Sons of Light , Tyneside Theatre Company (1976); revised for the RSC at The Other Place (1977)Sovereignty Under Elizabeth , one-act play, InterAction at the Almost Free Theatre (1977)Hansel and Gretel , RSC, The Other Place (1980)The Triumph of Death , Birmingham Rep (1981)Space Invaders , one-act play, RSC Youth Festival, Stratford (1983)Will's Way , monologue spoken by Shakespeare , RSC Youth Festival, Stratford (1984)The Saxon Shore , Almeida Theatre (1986)John Piper in the House of Death , after Daniel Defoe 's A Journal of the Plague Year Central School of Speech and Drama (1991)Symphonie Pathétique (commissioned for the centenary of the death of Tchaikovsky ) (1992), unperformedTrade (1997), unperformedRed Sun , AJTC touring production (2003)The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov for the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (2004)Merlin Unchained , Aberystwyth University , directed by David Ian Rabey (2009)Television plays The Stone Dance , ATV , starring Michael Bryant , John Hurt , Michael Hordern and Rachel Thomas , directed by Peter Wood (1963)Children Playing , ATV, directed by Peter Wood (1967)House of Character , BBC Wednesday Play (1967)Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage , BBC Wednesday Play (1969)Bypass , BBC, starring Bob Peck (1972)Atrocity , BBC (1973)Penda's Fen Play for Today directed by Alan Clarke (1974)Churchill's People Pritân The Coming of the Cross A Ghost Story for Christmas Leap in the Dark Artemis 81 Hywel Bennett , Roland Curram , Dan O'Herlihy , Ian Redford , Dinah Stabb, and Sting (1981)Across the Water , BBC, starring Liam Neeson (1983)White Lady , BBC, directed by the author (1986)Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Thames TV (1991)
Radio plays Film Translations The Persians Aeschylus , BBC Radio 3 , with Donald Wolfit as Ghost of Darius (1965)Hecuba Euripides , BBC Radio 3, directed by John Tydeman (1975)Hippolytus Royal Shakespeare Company , directed by Ron Daniels with Natasha Parry as Phaedra , Michael Pennington as Hippolytus , and Patrick Stewart as Theseus (1978); directed for Radio 3 by John Tydeman (1984) with Siân Phillips as PhaedraPeer Gynt Henrik Ibsen , RSC (1983)Deathwatch Jean Genet , RSC at The Pit (1987)The Maids Donmar Warehouse in 1997, directed by John Crowley , with Josette Simon , Niamh Cusack , and Kerry Fox [7] Rosmersholm Lindsay Duncan as Rebecca West and Charles Kay as Professor Kroll (1990)When We Dead Waken Almeida Theatre , directed by Jonathan Kent with Claire Bloom as Irena (1990)Opera libretti Moses and Aaron Arnold Schoenberg 's libretto, Royal Opera House , directed by Peter Hall , conducted by Georg Solti (1964)The Grace of Todd , one-act comic opera by Gordon Crosse , Aldeburgh Festival (1969)Broken Strings , one-act opera by Param Vir , originally produced by Pierre Audi at De Nederlandse Opera (1992)[8] Inquest of Love , script doctoring work for Jonathan Harvey 's opera, English National Opera (1993)[9] Black Feather Rising , music theatre piece by Param Vir, Toneelschuur and tour of the Netherlands (2008)[10]
Notes
^ Anger and After by John Russell Taylor p.279 of revised 1963 Pelican edition^ a b c d Biographical information on cover of The Triumph of Death , Methuen 1981 ISBN 0-413-49110-2 and The Saxon Shore , Methuen 1986 ISBN 0-413-14100-4
^ John Russell Taylor Anger and After , Harmondesworth: Pelican, 1963 ed., pp.279-280^ a b John Russell Taylor Anger & After , Methuen University Paperback, 1969 reprint, p.309^ Vampyr , BFI, ISBN 978-1-84457-073-7 ^ OBIES Archived 30 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 16 Oct 09^ Benedict, David (27 June 1997). "THEATRE The Maids Donmar Warehouse, London" . The Independent . Retrieved 21 August 2009 . ^ Param Vir's website Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 7 October 2009^ Jonathan Harvey's website Retrieved on 7 October 2009^ Param Vir's website Archived 9 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 7 October 2009
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