Patrick Garland

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Patrick Garland (born April 10, 1935) is an actor and a director of British theatre, television and film, and a writer.

With Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne Garland started Poetry International in 1963. Garland was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department (1962-74). He served as the Artistic Director for the Chichester Festival Theatre twice between 1981 and 1985 and from 1990 and 1994, where he directed over twenty productions. In 1980 he was responsible for the York Mystery Plays. Among many productions, he directed the revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway in the early 1980s with Rex Harrison (about whom he wrote The Incomparable Rex) and the musical Billy with Michael Crawford at Drury Lane, Don Giovanni and in Japan, Handel's opera Ottone. He directed his own play, Brief Lives, based on the life and writing of John Aubrey, and starring Roy Dotrice in the premiere as well as the 2008 production and Michael Williams in an earlier revival. He also directed Eileen Atkins in his own adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book A Room of One's Own.

Recently Garland has directed Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd in a tour that culminated in Australia and Broadway, and Joan Collins in Full Circle by Alan Melville. Garland also worked with Alan Bennett, directing the original stage production of Forty Years On; and for television, directing Patricia Routledge in the second Talking Heads and Bennett himself in Telling Tales.

Garland directed the film of Ibsen's A Doll's House with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson and his 1971 television film of The Snow Goose won Golden Globe: "Best Movie made for TV".

Garland has devised and presented several performances for the Charleston Festival.

Garland directed Fanfare for Elizabeth at Covent Garden on Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday and in 1989 he directed the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Olivier.

Garland is married to the actress Alexandra Bastedo.

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[edit] Books by Patrick Garland

  • Brief Lives (1967)
  • The Wings of The Morning (1989)
  • Oswald The Owl (1990)
  • Angels in The Sussex Air (1995), an anthology of Sussex poets
  • The Incomparable Rex (1999), a memoir of Rex Harrison

[edit] Selected plays by Patrick Garland

[edit] Chichester Festival Theatre Productions by Patrick Garland

[edit] Minerva Theatre Productions at Chichester Festival Theatre

  • 1992
    • Vita & Virginia ... directed by Patrick Garland
  • 1993
    • Elvira '40 ... directed by Patrick Garland

[edit] Selected other productions

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