Peter Dews (director)
Peter Dews (26 September 1929,
stage director
.
Born and educated in Wakefield, Yorkshire he then took an
M.A. at University College, Oxford. After two years teaching history he joined the BBC, in Birmingham, working first in radio (it is thought that he was the director of the episode of The Archers which featured the death of Grace Archer in a fire, a spoiler for the opening of independent television) and then television, as a director. He won the BAFTA 'Best Director' Award in 1960 for An Age of Kings, a television adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays. He subsequently directed Shakespeare's Roman plays in the series The Spread of the Eagle.[1][2][3]
After a period of freelance theatre work he joined the
Frederick the Great by Romulus Linney
, in 1970.
At the
Abdication crisis, in the West End, with Wendy Hiller as Queen Mary. He also directed productions in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Malta, Éire and Hong Kong, in the UK he also directed at Nottingham Playhouse (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre (Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, which he directed again at Birmingham) and Greenwich Theatre (Inferno by Ian Curteis).[4]
References
- ^ "DVD: An Age of Kings". theartsdesk.com. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ Hoberman, J. (25 March 2009). "An Age of Kings: This Earth, This England, This Series". The New York Times.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Spread of the Eagle, The (1963)". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ "Peter Dews | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
External links
- Peter Dews at the Internet Broadway Database
- Peter Dews at IMDb
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