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Revision as of 08:07, 28 April 2011

Patrick Garland (born 10 April 1935) is a British actor, writer, and director.

Garland started Poetry International in 1963 with Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne. He was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department (1962–1974), and worked on its Monitor series. In 1964, he directed the Monitor film, "Down Cemetery Road," about Philip Larkin, in which John Betjeman also appeared.[1] He served as the Artistic Director for the Chichester Festival Theatre twice, 1981–1985 and 1990–1994, where he directed over 20 productions. His 1971 television film of The Snow Goose won a Golden Globe for "Best Movie made for TV," and was nominated for both a BAFTA and an Emmy. He was made an Hon D Litt University of Southampton 1994; Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1997.

Career

Patrick Garland's appearances as an actor included "An Age of Kings". In 1980, Garland was responsible for the York Mystery Plays. 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, he 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. He 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.

He 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" and was nominated for both a BAFTA award and an Emmy. He directed Fanfare for Elizabeth at Covent Garden on Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday, and in 1986 at Westminster Abbey Celebration of a Broadcaster of the late Richard Dimbleby. 1989 he directed the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Olivier. He has also devised and presented several performances for the Charleston Festival.

Garland is married to the actress Alexandra Bastedo.

Works

Books
  • 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
  • Abstract & Brief Chronicles (2007), a series of essays read by Patrick Garland himself

Poetry

published in:

The London Magazine (1954), New Poems (1956), Sussex Seams (1996), Poetry West, Encounter.

short stories

published in:

Transatlantic Review (1976), England Erzaht, Gemini, Light Dark Blue.

Selected plays
Chichester Festival Theatre Productions
Minerva Theatre Productions at Chichester Festival Theatre
  • 1992
  • 1993
  • 1996
    • Beatrix adapted from the writings of Beatrix Potter by Patrick Garland and Judy Taylor ...directed by Patrick Garland (opened at Minerva & then toured to Malvern, Plymouth, Guildford, Richmond, Bath & Windsor)
Selected other productions
Selected television & film
Television (as writer)
  • 1960 - "The Hard Case" with John Hurt
  • 1961 - "The Younger Generation"
  • 1961 - "Flow Gently Sweet Afton" with John Thaw
  • 1972 - I Spy a Stranger
  • 1980 -"Every Night Something Awful""
  • 1980 - "Chaos Supersedes E.N.S.A."

Notes

  1. ^ Garland, Patrick. "Filming with Philip Larkin," The Listener, December 12, 1985.

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