Deborah Warner
Deborah Warner CBE (born May 12, 1959 in Oxfordshire , England ) is an English theater and opera director .
At the age of 21, Warner was already leading his own theater company. In 1987 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, and when she was only thirty, she became a resident director at the Royal National Theater . She prefers classic tragedies from Sophocles to Shakespeare , but has also directed Büchner , TS Eliot and Beckett .
In 1993 she brought acting director Peter Stein to the Salzburg Festival , where she directed Coriolan with Bruno Ganz in the title role. The turbulent production met with intense public interest, but was panned by the press: “Ben Hur für Arme” ( Der Spiegel ) and “Indianerspiele im Shakespeare-Corral” ( Frankfurter Allgemeine ). She got better feedback for her guest performance in Salzburg in 1996 with Richard II , who had previously been panned in London, but was cheered in Paris. The title role was played by Fiona Shaw , with whom she has had a long professional partnership. Shaw also played Hedda Gabler , Elektra and Medea in Warner's productions , as well as Brecht's mother Courage and The Good People of Sezuan .
There has also been a longstanding collaboration with the stage and costume designer Chloé Obolensky .
Awards
- 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director - Titus Andronicus
- 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director of a Play - Hedda Gabler
- 1992 Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 2006 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Individual evidence
- ^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 58014, HMSO, London, June 17, 2006, p. 8 ( PDF , accessed May 12, 2012, English).
Web links
- Deborah Warner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Warner, Deborah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxfordshire , England |