Mike Poulton

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Mike Poulton is an English translator and adapter of classic plays for contemporary audiences.

Poulton began his career in 1995 with Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool, which were staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, the former with Derek Jacobi, the latter with Alan Bates, who reprised his role for a 2002 Broadway production that earned Poulton a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.

Poulton's subsequent works include Chekov's Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and The Seagull, Euripides' Ion, Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Ghosts, August Strindberg's The Father and Dance of Death, Friedrich von Schiller's Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and two plays based on Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.

Poulton's adaptations have been presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, the Mercury Theatre in Colchester, the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, on Broadway, in the West End, and even in York Minster.