Michael Benthall

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English theatre director (Born 1919. Died 1974) born Michael Pickersgill Benthall.

As Director of the Old Vic, he was responsible for the policy and artistic direction of the organisation. His first connection with the Old Vic was in 1944 when, during the Company's season at the New Theatre (the Old Vic then being closed due to enemy action), he directed a production of Hamlet jointly with Tyrone Guthrie.[1]

As a young Oxford undergraduate, Michael Benthall met Robert Helpmann who had been fulfilling an invitation to dance at the university. The pair formed a relationship that was to last for 36 years, the couple living and working together quite openly until Benthall's untimely death in 1974.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Old Vic Australian Tour 1955, M Benthall's biog in theatre program.
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