history:John Gale

1985-1989
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John Gale OBE

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1985

Festival Theatre:

Cavalcade – Noël Coward

Anthony and Cleopatra – William Shakespeare

The Philanthropist – Christopher Hampton

The Scarlett Pimpernell – book by Baroness Orczy (version by Beverly Cross)

1986

Festival Theatre:

Annie Get Your Gun – music & lyrics by Irving Berlin (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields)

The Chalk Garden – Enid Bagnold

The Relapse – Sir John Vanbrugh

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (version by Peter Coe)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart (music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)

1987

Festival Theatre:

Robert and Elizabeth – book & lyrics by Ronald Millar (music by Ron Grainer)

An Ideal Husband – Oscar Wilde

A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt

Miranda – Beverly Cross after Carlo Goldoni

1988

Festival Theatre:

Hay Fever – Noël Coward

Major Barbara – George Bernard Shaw

The Royal Baccarat Scandal – Royce Ryton (based on the book by Michael Havers & Edward Grayson)

Ring Round the Moon – Jean Anouilh (version by Christopher Fry)

1989

Festival Theatre:

Victory! – Patrick Garland (adapted from The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy)

The Heiress – Ruth & Augustus Goetz

London Assurance – Dion Boucicault

A Little Night Music – music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (book by Hugh Wheeler)

Minerva (Artistic Director Sam Mendes):

Summerfolk – Maxim Gorky, (version by Michael Robinson)

Culture Vultures – Robin Glendinning

Warrior – Shirley Gee

The Triumph of Love – Marivaux, (version by Guy Callan)

Clound Nine – Caryl Churchill

Love’s Labour’s Lost – William Shakespeare

The Purity Game – Gillian Plowman

War and Peaces – Will Cohu & Stefan Bednarczyk