Patrick Garland
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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
- 1975
- An Enemy of the People ... directed by Patrick Garland
- Monsieur Perrichon's Travels ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1977
- The Apple Cart ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1978
- A Woman of No Importance ... directed by Patrick Garland
- Look After Lulu! ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1981
- The Cherry Orchard ... directed by Patrick Garland
- The Mitford Girls ... directed by Patrick Garland
- Underneath the Arches, by Patrick Garland, Brian Glanville & Roy Hudd in association with Chesney Allen ... directed by Roger Redfarn
- 1982
- On the Rocks ... directed by Jack Emery and Patrick Garland
- Cavell ... directed by Patrick Garland
- Goodbye, Mr Chips ... directed by Patrick Garland and Chris Selbie
- 1983
- As You Like It ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1984
- Forty Years On ... directed by Patrick Garland
- The Merchant of Venice ... directed by Patrick Garland
- The Philanthropist ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1989
- 1992
- King Lear in New York ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1993
- Pickwick ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1994
- Pygmalion ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1998
- Chimes at Midnight ... directed by Patrick Garland
- Minerva Theatre Productions at Chichester Festival Theatre
- 1992
- Vita & Virginia ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 1993
- Elvira '40 ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 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
- The Rebel,(1964) directed by Patrick Garland, Aldwych Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, with Peter Bowles, William Marlowe, Bryan Pringle, Clive Swift, David Warner.
- Cyrano by Edmond Rostand, adapted & directed by Patrick Garland, National Theatre Company, Cambridge Theatre (1970)
- Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy adapted by Patrick Garland (1970)
- Getting On, Brighton & London (1971)
- Hedda Gabler, Broadway (1971)
- A Doll's House, Broadway (1971)
- Hair, Israel (1972)
- Mad Dog, (1973)
- Billy, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London 1974
- Shut Your Eyes and Think of England, (1978)
- Kipling by Brian Clark with Alec McCowen, theatre & on Channel 4 television.
- Beecham by Caryl Brahms & Ned Sherrin, (1980) with Timothy West
- My Fair Lady,(1981) Broadway revival with Rex Harrison, directed by Patrick Garland. The production won a Tony Award 1980
- Canaries Sometimes Sing by Frederick Lonsdale, Albery Theatre (1987)
- The Secret of Sherlock Holmes by Jeremy Paul, Wyndham's Theatre (1988–1989)
- The Tempest with Denis Quilley as Prospero, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, (1996)
- An Enormous Yes, with Alan Bates from the writing of Philip Larkin... adapted & directed by Patrick Garland.
- Wooing in Absence, performed by Benjamin Whitrow & Natalia Makarova, adapted by Patrick Garland from the letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes, (2000)
- Christopher Columbus, music by William Walton, words by Louis MacNeice, Brighton Dome, (2002)
- 2007 and 2008
- Visiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron with Warren Mitchell ... directed by Patrick Garland
- 2008
- Brief Lives ... written & directed by Patrick Garland with Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey
- 2008 & 2009-2010
- Dr. Marigold and Mr. Chops by Charles Dickens performed by Simon Callow at the Edinburgh Festival, 2008 & at Riverside Studios, 2009-January 2010...adapted & directed by Patrick Garland
- 2010 Recital with Patricia Routledge of a spiritual anthology (for charity), Sullington, Sussex
- Selected television & film
- 1964 - "Down Cemetery Road", film with Philip Larkin & John Betjeman, Monitor (TV)
- 1965 - Beginning to End by Samuel Beckett with Jack MacGowran, BBC
- 1971 - The Stronger (TV) by August Strindberg with Britt Ekland and Marianne Faithful
- 1971 - The Snow Goose (TV)
- 1973 - A Doll's House
- 1974 - The Cay (TV)
- 1980 - "Every Night Something Awful"
- 1980 - "Chaos Supersedes E.N.S.A."
- 1987 - "Laurence Olivier's 80th Birthday Celebrations What will survive of us is love"-poetry read by Olivier, directed by Patrick Garland
- 1990 - A Room of One's Own (TV)
- 1998 - "Talking Heads 2"; episode "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet"
- 2000 - "Telling Tales" by Alan Bennett
- 2000 - The Mystery of Charles Dickens (TV)
- Television (as writer)
Notes
- ^ Garland, Patrick. "Filming with Philip Larkin," The Listener, December 12, 1985.
External links
- Walker, Tim (2008). Two old stagers find vigour in Brief Lives, The Spectator, February 2, 2008.
- Patrick Garland at the Internet Broadway Database
- Patrick Garland at IMDb
- The Snow Goose at IMDb
- Patrick Garland as actor, Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
- Patrick Garland as author, Theatre Collection, University of Bristol
- Patrick Garland as director, Theatre Archive, University of Bristol