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Description: | David Phethean (1918-2001) was an actor, director, writer and teacher. He trained at RADA (1936-1937) and made his first London appearance at His Majesty's (1939) as Wagner in The Devil to Pay. Phethan appeared in West End plays and provincial rep, films and television before directing his first play at Nottingham Playhouse in 1956. He was subsequently made Director of Productions at Queen's, Hornchurch (1960-63) and Assistant Director of Bristol Old Vic Theatre, in charge of the Little Theatre (1963-64). Phethean went on to direct a new London production of Beyond the Fringe and a tour of Oliver! (1965-66) and a three month run in Tokyo in 1968. He returned to Bristol Old Vic as Director from approximately 1963 to 1978. Phethean described this period as one of the happiest in his career: 'The Bristol programmes cover the most successful directorial work in my theatre life. It was sustained pleasure and satisfaction which the life of an actor can seldom attain.' After retirement in the late 1970s Phethean concentrated on writing. He adapted Goldoni's Venetian Twins for Bristol Old Vic as The Bristol Twins, wrote Mishka, inspired by Chekhov's Three Sisters, and began work on his autobiography. The archive includes Phethean's books, periodicals, playscripts, programmes, correspondence and papers from his days at RADA to his role as Director at the Bristol Old Vic.; All catalogued items are searchable online. For all other collection items, contact the
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University of Bristol Theatre Collection, University of Bristol, | Format: | Playbills Correspondence Press cuttings Periodicals Books Personal items Posters Scrapbooks Playtexts (printed) Programmes Masks | Subjects: | The Drums of Father Ned; Charley's Aunt; Lap of the Gods; Waiting for Godot; Doctor's Delight; The Seagull; Lear; Dodo in Love; Mourning Becomes Electra; The Pink Room; Saint's Day; Macbeth; Henry IV; Figure of Fun; The Pony Cart; Night Without Sleep; Beyond the Fringe; Ring Round the Moon; A Cold Peace; The Devil to Pay; Man and Superman; Misalliance; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; Fanny's First Play; Pygmalian; Androcles and the Lion; Overruled; Major Barbara; John Bull's Other Island; How He Lied to Her Husband; The Apple Cart; Heartbreak House; Great Catherine; Playlets of the War; The Doctor's Dilemma; Getting Married; The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet; Plays Pleasant; Arms and the Man; Candida; You Never Can Tell; The Man of Destiny; The Devil's Disciple; Caesar & Cleopatra; Captain Brassbound's Conversion; Saint Joan; Back to Methuselah; The Rivals; The School for Scandal; The Critic; A Trip to Scarborough; She Stoops to Conquer; Oliver!; The Caretaker; Becket; The School for Scandal; The Rivals; All in Good Time; Henry IV Parts I & II; What Every Woman Knows; Lock Up Your Daughters; Relatively Speaking; The Poets Hear It; The Boyfriend; Absurd Person Singular; Round and Round the Garden; The Importance of Being Ernest; Twelfth Night; Days and Nights of B.B. Fenstermaker; The Gentle Avalanche; Ralph Roister Doister; Private Lives; Hotel in Amsterdam; The Iceman Cometh; Barefoot in the Park; Don Juan; Xmas Back in King Street; Workhouse Donkey; The Double Dealer; London Assurance; Hobson's Choice; Canterbury Tales; Misalliance; Journey's End; Much Ado About Nothing; When We Are Married; Vivat Vivat Regina; The Apple Cart; Abelard & Heloise; Cowardy Custard; The Cherry Orchard; A Flea in Her Ear; Ghosts; Sleuth; Crown Matrimonial; Side by Side by Sondheim; Bristol Twins; Mishka; Venetian Twins Actors; Authors and the theatre; Theatre Biography; Theatrical producers and directors; Theatre --Production and direction; Theatrical Companies; Theatre; Television; Motion Pictures | Temporal: | 1936 1989 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Department of Drama, Cantocks Close,,
BS8 1UP | Creator: | David Phethean | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Playbills Correspondence Press cuttings Periodicals Books Personal items Posters Scrapbooks Playtexts (printed) Programmes Masks | Go to resource |
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