William Bridges-Adams (Theatre director)

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William Bridges-Adams (1889–1965) was a British theatre director, associated closely with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 1919 until 1934. Under his leadership the annual short festivals of Shakespeare’s plays first took on the international fame and significance which they hold to this day. His design for the stage layout of the current Royal Shakespeare Theatre was followed by architect Elisabeth Scott when the theatre was rebuilt, after a fire, in 1933.

He was the grandson of the author and inventor William Bridges Adams.

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• Speaight, Robert, revised Wells, Stanley (2004): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.