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William Dudley (designer)

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William Dudley OBE RDI (born 4 March 1947 in London, England) is a British theatre designer.

Early life

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Dudley is the son of William Stuart Dudley and his wife Dorothy Irene (née Stacey). He attended Highbury Grammar School.[1]

He was educated at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art. He is a member of the Society of British Theatre Designers. He is married to the theatre director Lucy Bailey.[2]

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1173/27) with Dudley in 2007–2008 for its An Oral History of Theatre Design collection held by the British Library.[3]

Career

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He designed his first production in October 1970, Hamlet for Nottingham Playhouse. Since then, he has designed the following productions:

  • The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Court) – 1971
  • Man Is Man, Bertolt Brecht (Royal Court) – 1971
  • Anarchist (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1971
  • Tyger (co-designed for the National Theatre) – July 1971
  • Cato Street (Young Vic) – 1971
  • The Good Natur'd Man (National) – 1971
  • Live Like Pigs (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1972
  • I Claudius (Queen's Theatre) – 1972
  • The Baker, the Baker's Wife and the Baker's Boy (Newcastle) – 1972
  • Rooted (Hampstead Theatre) – March 1973
  • Magnificence; Sweet Talk and The Merry-Go-Round (Royal Court) – 1973
  • Ashes (Open Space) – January 1974
  • The Corn is Green (Watford Palace) – 1974
  • Twelfth Night, director Peter Gill (RSC Stratford) – August 1974
  • Harding's Luck (Greenwich Theatre) – December 1974
  • Fish in the Sea (Half Moon Theatre) – February 1975
  • As You Like It (Nottingham Playhouse) – 1975
  • The Fool (Royal Court) – 1975
  • The Norman Conquests (Berlin) – 1976
  • Small Change, Peter Gill (Royal Court) – July 1976
  • As You Like It (opening of Riverside Studios) – May 1976
  • Ivanov, director David Jones (RSC Aldwych Theatre) – September 1976
  • The Cherry Orchard, director Peter Gill, (Riverside Studios) – January 1978
  • That Good Between Us (RSC Donmar Warehouse) – July 1977
  • Lavender Blue (National, Cottesloe) – November 1977
  • Touched (Nottingham Playhouse at the Old Vic) – September 1977
  • The World Turned Upside Down (National, Cottesloe) – 2 November 1978
  • Has 'Washington' Legs? (National, Cottesloe) – 29 November 1978
  • Billy Budd (The Metropolitan Opera House, New York) – 1978
  • Dispatches (National, Cottesloe) – 6 June 1979
  • Undiscovered Country (National, Olivier) – 20 June 1979
  • Lark Rise and Candleford (National, Cottesloe) – 1979
  • The Tales of Hoffman by Offenbach (dir. John Schlesinger) Royal Opera House - 1980
  • Don Quixote (National, Olivier) – 1982
  • Schweyk in the Second World War, Bertolt Brecht (National, Olivier) – 1982
  • Small Change (National, Cottesloe) – 1983
  • Cinderella, Pantomime (National, Lyttelton) – December 1983
  • The Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner (dir. Peter Hall con. Georg Solti) Bayreuth Festival - 1983
  • The Mysteries: Doomsday/The Nativity/The Passion, designed and lit (National, Cottesloe; Lyceum Theatre) – 1985
  • The Party (RSC The Pit) – 1985
  • Richard III (RSC Barbican Theatre) – 1985
  • Today (RSC The Pit) – 1985
  • Mutiny, David Essex musical (Piccadilly Theatre) – 1985
  • The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound (National, Olivier) – 1985
  • Edmond, David Mamet (Royal Court) – 1985
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC Barbican Theatre) – 1986 and 1987
  • Futurists (National, Cottesloe) – 1986
  • Prairie du Chien/The Shawl (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1986
  • Kafka's Dick (Royal Court) – 1986
  • Country Dancing (RSC The Pit) – 1987
  • Richard II (RSC Barbican Theatre) – 1987
  • Entertaining Strangers (National, Cottesloe) – 1987
  • Girlfriends, Howard Goodall musical (Playhouse Theatre) – 1987
  • Waiting for Godot (National, Lyttelton) – 1987
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (National, Lyttelton) – 1988
  • The Shaughran (National, Olivier) – 1988 and 1989
  • The Changeling (National, Lyttelton) – 1988
  • The Father, August Strindberg (National, Cottesloe) – 1988
  • The Voysey Inheritance (National, Cottesloe) – 1989
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir Howard Davies) New York – 1990
  • Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček (dir. Bill Bryden) Royal Opera House - June 1990
  • The Ship (dir. Bill Bryden) Harland and Wolf Shipyard, Glasgow - 1990
  • Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti (dir. Andrei Serban) Lyric Opera, Chicago November 1990
  • Pygmailion by George Bernard Shaw (dir.Howard Davies) NT Olivier - April 1992
  • Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw (dir. Trevor Nunn) Haymarket , London - June1992
  • The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartright (dir. Sam Mendes) NT Cottesloe - 1992
  • The Big Picnic (dir. Bill Bryden) Harland and Wolf Shipyard, Glasgow - 1994
  • My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot (dir. Roger Michell) Royal Court , London - 1994
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen (Film) (dir. Roger Michell) BBC - 1995 (BAFTA for design)
  • Some Sunny Day by Martin Sherman (dir. Roger Michell) Hampstead Theatre - 1996
  • Mary Stuart by Friedrich von Schiller (dir Howard Davies) National Lyttelton - March 1996
  • The Alchemist by Ben Johnson (dir. Bill Alexander) Birmingham Rep/NT Olivier - October 1996
  • The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (dir. Roger Michell) National Theatre, Lyttelton - Jan 1997
  • Dance of the Vampires (dir. Roman Polanski) Raimund Theatre, Vienna - October 1997
  • The London Cuckolds by Edward Ravenscroft (dir Terry Johnson) National Lyttelton - February 1998
  • Cleo,Camping,Emmanuel and Dick by Terry Johnson (dir Terry Johnson) National Lyttelton - September 1998
  • Lenny (dir Peter Hall) Queens Theatre - July 1999 [4]
  • Amadeus (dir Peter Hall) Old Vic – October 1998; New York – 1999
  • Rose Theatre Interactive Exhibition - Bankside, London - 1999
  • The Silver Tassie - Sean O'Casey - Mark Anthony Turnage (dir. Bill Bryden) ENO - February 2000
  • Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall (dir Roger Michell), National Cottesloe – April 2000; Duchess Theatre – April 2001
  • All My Sons by Arthur Miller (dir Howard Davies) National Lyttelton – July 2000; National Lyttelton – August 2001
  • Entertaining Mr Sloane (dir Terry Johnson ) Arts Theatre – January 2001
  • The York Realist (written and dir Peter Gill) Royal Court – January 2002; Strand Theatre – March 2002[5]
  • The Coast of Utopia: Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage, trilogy by Tom Stoppard (dir Trevor Nunn) National – August 2002[6]
  • The Breath of Life by David Hare (dir Howard Davies) Theatre Royal Haymarket – October 2002[7]
  • Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith (dir Roger Michell) National Cottesloe – 2003
  • Hitchcock Blonde (written and dir Terry Johnson) Royal Court and Lyric Theatre – 2003[8]
  • The Permanent Way by David Hare (dir Max Stafford Clark) National Cottesloe – January 2004 [1]
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (dir Howard Davies) National Olivier – April 2004[9]
  • Old Times by Harold Pinter (dir Roger Michell) Donmar Warehouse – July 2004[10]
  • The Woman in White musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (dir Trevor Nunn) Palace Theatre – September 2004;[11] New York – 2005[12]
  • Titus Andronicus (dir Lucy Bailey) Shakespeare's Globe – 2006[13]
  • Giant By Anthony Sher - Hampstead Theatre, London - 2007
  • The Last Confession by Roger Crane (dir. David Jones) Chichester Festival Theatre - 2007
  • Peter Pan 360 (dir. Ben Harrison) Kensington Gardens, London- 2009
  • End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter (dir.Terry Johnson) Trafalgar Studios , London - 2010
  • The Beggar's Opera (dir Lucy Bailey) Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park – 2011
  • Fortune's Fool (dir Lucy Bailey) The Old Vic – 2013.[14]
  • Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be' by Frank Norman/Lionel Bart (dir.Terry Johnson) Theatre Royal, Stratford East - 2014
  • Sunday in the Park with George, (dir. Lee Blakeley) Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris - April 2013
  • Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton (dir. Lucy Bailey) Royal and Derngate, Northampton 2015
  • The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh (dir. Jeremy Sams) CFT, Minerva - May 2015
  • Ross by Terence Rattigan (dir. Adrian Noble) Chichester Festival Theatre - June 2016
  • Comus by John Milton (dir. Lucy Bailey) Sam Wanamaker Playhouse - October 2016
  • For Services Rendered by W Somerset Maugham (dir. Howard Davies) CFT, Minerva - August 2015
  • Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie (dir. Lucy Bailey) London County Hall 2017
  • Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith (dir. Lucy Bailey) Ustinov Studio, Bath - August 2018

Honours and awards

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Awards include:

Dudley was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to stage design.[15]

References

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  1. ^ The Stage Thursday 24 April 2003, page 9
  2. ^ Maddy Costa (15 February 2011). "Director Lucy Bailey: Thinking small". The Guardian.
  3. ^ National Life Stories, 'Dudley, William (1 of 13) An Oral History of Theatre Design', The British Library Board, 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2018
  4. ^ "Lenny - UK Theatre Web". Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. ^ Fisher, Philip (2003). "The York Realist, By Peter Gill, The Royal Court Theatre Downstairs – Review". The British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  6. ^ "The Coast of Utopia: Voyage – Productions". National Theatre. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Theatre review: The Breath of Life at Theatre Royal Haymarket". Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  8. ^ "Theatre review: Hitchcock Blonde at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs". Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Theatre review: Cyrano de Bergerac at RNT Olivier". Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  10. ^ "Theatre review: Old Times at Donmar Warehouse". Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  11. ^ "Theatre review: The Woman in White at Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue". Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  12. ^ "The Woman in White, a CurtainUp review". Curtainup.com. 19 November 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  13. ^ John Thaxter (8 June 2006). "The Stage / Reviews / Titus Andronicus". Thestage.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  14. ^ "Fortune's Fool - The Old Vic". www.oldvictheatre.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2013.
  15. ^ "No. 63218". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2020. p. N11.

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