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William Dudley OBE RDI
Early life [ edit ]
Dudley is the son of William Stuart Dudley and his wife Dorothy Irene (née Stacey). He attended Highbury Grammar School.[1]
He was educated at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art . He is a member of the Society of British Theatre Designers. He is married to the theatre director Lucy Bailey .[2]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1173/27) with Dudley in 2007–2008 for its An Oral History of Theatre Design collection held by the British Library.[3]
He designed his first production in October 1970, Hamlet Nottingham Playhouse . Since then, he has designed the following productions:
The Duchess of Malfi Royal Court ) – 1971
Man Is Man Bertolt Brecht (Royal Court) – 1971
Anarchist (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1971
Tyger (co-designed for the National Theatre ) – July 1971
Cato Street (Young Vic ) – 1971
The Good Natur'd Man (National) – 1971
Live Like Pigs (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1972
I Claudius Queen's Theatre ) – 1972
The Baker, the Baker's Wife and the Baker's Boy (Newcastle) – 1972
Rooted (Hampstead Theatre ) – March 1973
Magnificence ; Sweet Talk and The Merry-Go-Round (Royal Court) – 1973
Ashes (Open Space) – January 1974
The Corn is Green (Watford Palace) – 1974
Twelfth Night RSC Stratford) – August 1974
Harding's Luck (Greenwich Theatre ) – December 1974
Fish in the Sea (Half Moon Theatre ) – February 1975
As You Like It (Nottingham Playhouse ) – 1975
The Fool (Royal Court) – 1975
The Norman Conquests
Small Change , Peter Gill (Royal Court) – July 1976
As You Like It (opening of Riverside Studios ) – May 1976
Ivanov , director David Jones (RSC Aldwych Theatre ) – September 1976
The Cherry Orchard
That Good Between Us (RSC Donmar Warehouse ) – July 1977
Lavender Blue (National, Cottesloe) – November 1977
Touched (Nottingham Playhouse at the Old Vic) – September 1977
The World Turned Upside Down (National, Cottesloe) – 2 November 1978
Has 'Washington' Legs? (National, Cottesloe) – 29 November 1978
Billy Budd Metropolitan Opera House , New York) – 1978
Dispatches (National, Cottesloe) – 6 June 1979
Undiscovered Country (National, Olivier) – 20 June 1979
Lark Rise and Candleford (National, Cottesloe) – 1979
Don Quixote (National, Olivier) – 1982
Schweyk in the Second World War , Bertolt Brecht (National, Olivier) – 1982
Small Change (National, Cottesloe) – 1983
Cinderella , Pantomime (National, Lyttelton) – December 1983
The Mysteries: Doomsday/The Nativity/The Passion , designed and lit (National, Cottesloe; Lyceum Theatre) – 1985
The Party (RSC The Pit ) – 1985
Richard III Barbican Theatre ) – 1985
Today (RSC The Pit) – 1985
Mutiny , David Essex musical (Piccadilly Theatre ) – 1985
The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound (National, Olivier) – 1985
Edmond , David Mamet (Royal Court ) – 1985
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Futurists (National, Cottesloe) – 1986
Prairie du Chien/The Shawl (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1986
Kafka's Dick (Royal Court) – 1986
Country Dancing (RSC The Pit) – 1987
Richard II
Entertaining Strangers (National, Cottesloe) – 1987
Girlfriends , Howard Goodall musical (Playhouse Theatre ) – 1987
Waiting for Godot
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Shaughran (National, Olivier) – 1988 and 1989
The Changeling
The Father August Strindberg (National, Cottesloe) – 1988
The Voysey Inheritance
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir Howard Davies ) New York – 1990
Lenny Peter Hall ) Queens Theatre - July 1999 [4]
Amadeus Peter Hall ) Old Vic – October 1998; New York – 1999
Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall (dir Roger Michell ), National Cottesloe – April 2000; Duchess Theatre – April 2001
All My Sons by Arthur Miller (dir Howard Davies) National Lyttelton – July 2000; National Lyttelton – August 2001
Entertaining Mr Sloane Terry Johnson ) Arts Theatre – January 2001
The York Realist Peter Gill ) Royal Court – January 2002; Strand Theatre – March 2002[5]
The Coast of Utopia : Voyage/Shipwreck/SalvageTom Stoppard (dir Trevor Nunn ) National – August 2002[6]
The Breath of Life by David Hare (dir Howard Davies) Theatre Royal Haymarket – October 2002[7]
Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith (dir Roger Michell) National Cottesloe – 2003
Hitchcock Blonde Lyric Theatre – 2003[8]
The Permanent Way by David Hare (dir Max Stafford Clark) National Cottesloe – January 2004 [1 ]
Cyrano de Bergerac [9]
Old Times by Harold Pinter (dir Roger Michell) Donmar Warehouse – July 2004[10]
The Woman in White Andrew Lloyd Webber (dir Trevor Nunn) Palace Theatre – September 2004;[11] [12]
Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's Globe – 2006[13]
The Beggar's Opera Open Air Theatre , Regent's Park – 2011
Fortune's Fool Lucy Bailey ) The Old Vic – 2013.[14]
Honours and awards [ edit ]
Awards include:
Dudley was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to stage design.[15]
References [ edit ]
^ National Life Stories, 'Dudley, William (1 of 13) An Oral History of Theatre Design', The British Library Board, 2008 . Retrieved 1 February 2018
^ "Lenny - UK Theatre Web" . Retrieved 31 March 2022 .
^ Fisher, Philip (2003). "The York Realist, By Peter Gill, The Royal Court Theatre Downstairs – Review" . The British Theatre Guide . Retrieved 2 November 2011 .
^ "The Coast of Utopia: Voyage – Productions" . National Theatre. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ "Theatre review: The Breath of Life at Theatre Royal Haymarket" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ "Theatre review: Hitchcock Blonde at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ "Theatre review: Cyrano de Bergerac at RNT Olivier" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ "Theatre review: Old Times at Donmar Warehouse" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ "Theatre review: The Woman in White at Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ "The Woman in White, a CurtainUp review" . Curtainup.com. 19 November 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ John Thaxter (8 June 2006). "The Stage / Reviews / Titus Andronicus" . Thestage.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ "Fortune's Fool - The Old Vic" . www.oldvictheatre.com . Archived from the original on 9 October 2013.
^ "No. 63218" . The London Gazette
Bibliography [ edit ]
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