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Terry Hands

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Director 1941–2020

Terence David Hands, (9 January 1941 – 4 February 2020) was an English theatre director. He founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for thirteen years during one of the company's most successful periods; he spent 25 years in all with the RSC. He also saved Clwyd Theatr Cymru from closure and turned it into the most successful theatre in Wales in his seventeen years as Artistic Director. He received several Olivier, Tony and Molière awards and nominations for directing and lighting.

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Carrie

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  • However, there was a profound difference between portraying a sitcom shrink and the Man Who Would Be King. The reviews for both Grammer and Terry Hands’s production were lethal. Shakespeare’s shortest play got its shortest commercial run; the drama that will forever be intertwined with bad luck ran, fittingly enough, thirteen performances…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • “[Director] Terry Hands saw this slight story of an adolescent girl seeking peer group acceptance [Carrie , the 1988 musical] as a Greek tragedy. To this end, he staged the show not in a recognizable high school but on a bare monochrome set enclosed by sterile, all white, high-tech walls: ‘The Black and White Menstrual Show’ … Carrie the…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • Her old bosses at the Royal Shakespeare Company had a crack at raising the ceiling in 1988, with Terry Hands’ production of Carrie . The original schlock-horror novel’s power derived from the destruction of that most reassuring symbol of American small town continuity, the high school senior prom, and Stephen King has updated the story in…ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
  • But Terry Hands saw this slight story of an adolescent girl seeking peer group acceptance as a Greek tragedy. To this end, he staged the show not in a recognizable high school but on a bare monochrome set enclosed by sterile, all white, high-tech walls: The Black and White Menstrual Show . Hands neutered the drama: his production was, in…ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
  • PLEASURE AND REPENTANCE Devised by Terry Hands; Directed by Patrick Tucker; Designedtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Directed b> Terry Hands; Settings. Ralph Koltai; Costumes. Alexander Reid; Music. Nigel Hess; Lighting. Terry Hands; American Production Designed in association with John Kasarda (Settings). Jeffrey Beecroft (Lighting); Musical Director. Donald Johnston; Sound Supervision. T Richard Fitzgerald; Assistant Dire…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt

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