Robert Shaw (theatre director)
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Robert Shaw is an English theatre director, writer and translator. He is the founder and artistic director of Inside Intelligence, a London-based theatre company specialising in new plays and contemporary music theatre.
) and Anne Shaw (née Wilson).
His productions include:
His translation of Tejas Verdes by Fermín Cabal was praised by both The Guardian
("eloquently translated by Robert Shaw") and The Times
("Robert Shaw’s translation from Cabal’s Spanish is warm and rich, even poetic") when it opened at the Gate Theatre
in 2005 directed by Thea Sharrock
. It is published by Oberon Books
.
and Gordon Craig
was aroused by the fact that Martin Shaw
was Craig's closest lifelong friend and the only artist ever to work with him successfully more than once. Martin Shaw also toured Europe twice as conductor for Duncan in 1906 and 1907, while she was intimately involved with Craig. His cousin is the actor Sebastian Shaw
.
Early life
Shaw was born in 1956. He is the only child of John Shaw (eldest son of the British composer Martin ShawMartin Shaw (composer)
Martin Edward Fallas Shaw OBE, FRCM, DMus was an English composer, conductor and theatre producer...
) and Anne Shaw (née Wilson).
Inside Intelligence
In 1995, he founded his London based theatre company, Inside Intelligence.His productions include:
- The InvestigationThe Investigation (play)The Investigation is a play by Peter Weiss written in 1965 which depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. It premiered on October 19, 1965 on stages in fourteen West and East German cities and at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London. It carries the subtitle "Oratorio in 11 Cantos"...
by Peter WeissPeter WeissPeter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....
with Hal Cruttenden - The Woods by David MametDavid MametDavid Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
(UK premiere) with Peter PolycarpouPeter PolycarpouPeter Polycarpou is a British stage and TV and film actor, best known for playing Chris Theodopolopoudos in the television comedy series Birds of a Feather.-Career:...
and Emma Bird - As You Like ItAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
with Jessica OyelowoJessica OyelowoJessica Oyelowo is a British actress.She attended Woodbridge School as a child and was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor David Oyelowo, and their three sons....
, Michael WildmanMichael WildmanMichael Wildman is a British actor who appeared in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He played the role of aggressive, feisty centaur Magorian, who plays a small part in the eventual outcome of the plot....
and Charles HartCharles Hart (lyricist)Charles Hart is a British lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for re-writing the lyrics to, and contributing to the book of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical The Phantom of the Opera. He also co-wrote the lyrics to Lloyd Webber's 1989 musical Aspects of Love... - The LighthouseThe Lighthouse (opera)The Lighthouse is a chamber opera with words and music by Peter Maxwell Davies.The scenario was inspired by a true story. In December 1900 a lighthouse supply ship called the Hesperus, based in Stromness, Orkney, went on its routine tour of duty to the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland...
by Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesPeter Maxwell DaviesSir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:... - The Medium by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (London premiere), performed by Jane ManningJane ManningJane Manning OBE is an English concert and opera soprano, writer on music, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. She has been described by one critic as "the irrepressible, incomparable, unstoppable Ms...
. - ¡shoot! by Fermín Cabal translated by Robert Shaw, with Don GiletDon GiletDon Gilet is a British actor, best known for his roles in BBC productions Babyfather, EastEnders and 55 Degrees North. Don's surname is actually pronounced 'Gillit' but takes the stage name 'Jillay'.-Personal life:...
, Danielle Tarento and Raad Rawi - A music theatre adaptation of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and WeptBy Grand Central Station I Sat Down and WeptBy Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is a novel of prose poetry written by the Canadian author Elizabeth Smart and published in 1945. It is widely considered to be a classic of the genre....
by Elizabeth SmartElizabeth SmartElizabeth Ann Smart is an American female activist and contributor for ABC News. She first gained widespread attention at age 14 when she was kidnapped from her home and recovered nine months later.-Early life:... - One God, One Farinelli by Sandro Capeletti with Richard O'BrienRichard O'BrienRichard Timothy Smith , better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze...
- Ana in Love by Paloma PedreroPaloma PedreroPaloma Pedrero in Madrid, is a Spanish actress, theatre director and playwright.-Life:Spanish playwright, Paloma Pedrero studied Sociology at Madrid's Universidad Complutense before becoming involved in the reestablishment of Madrid's theater scene following the death of Franco as a member of the...
translated by Robert Shaw, with Jessica OyelowoJessica OyelowoJessica Oyelowo is a British actress.She attended Woodbridge School as a child and was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor David Oyelowo, and their three sons....
, Anne Firbank and Isobel Pravda - Three Women by Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
(London, Edinburgh - with Neve McIntoshNeve McIntosh-Early life:Born in Paisley, Neve McIntosh grew up in Edinburgh, where she attended Boroughmuir High School. She moved to Glasgow to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, after which she was in repertory companies at Perth and at The Little Theatre on the Isle of Mull.-Theatre:She...
and Louisa CleinLouisa CleinLouisa Miranda Clein is a British actress. Her mother is a professional violinist, her sister is the cellist Natalie Clein and her cousin is the author Julia Pascal. Clein played viola as a youth and was a violist with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 1995-1996.Clein is a 2000...
- and New York) - Some Gorgeous AccidentSome Gorgeous AccidentSome Gorgeous Accident was James Kennaway's fifth novel and the last to be published during his lifetime. It is a virtuoso portrait of a triangular relationship between photographer James Link, journalist Susan Steinberg and doctor Richard David Fiddes.A stage adaptation of Some Gorgeous Accident...
adapted by Robert Shaw from the novel by James KennawayJames KennawayJames Kennaway was a Scottish writer. He was born in Auchterarder in Perthshire and attended Glenalmond College.-Career:... - Teddy and Topsy, Shaw's adaptation of the love letters of Isadora DuncanIsadora DuncanIsadora Duncan was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and only later in her life...
to Gordon CraigEdward Gordon CraigEdward Henry Gordon Craig , sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings... - The first ever staging of Anna AkhmatovaAnna AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...
's greatest work Poem Without a Hero - His adaptation of Up To NowUp to Now (Shaw autobiography)Up to Now is the autobiography of the British composer, conductor and theatre producer Martin Shaw . It was published by Oxford University Press in 1929, when Shaw was 53...
, the autobiography of his grandfather, the Bohemian composer, conductor and theatre producer Martin ShawMartin Shaw (composer)Martin Edward Fallas Shaw OBE, FRCM, DMus was an English composer, conductor and theatre producer...
.
His translation of Tejas Verdes by Fermín Cabal was praised by both The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
("eloquently translated by Robert Shaw") and The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
("Robert Shaw’s translation from Cabal’s Spanish is warm and rich, even poetic") when it opened at the Gate Theatre
Gate Theatre
The Gate Theatre, in Dublin, was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir, initially using the Abbey Theatre's Peacock studio theatre space to stage important works by European and American dramatists...
in 2005 directed by Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock is an award-winning English theatre director. In 2001, when at age 24 she became artistic director of London's Southwark Playhouse, she was the youngest artistic director in British theatre....
. It is published by Oberon Books
Oberon Books
Oberon Books is an independent publisher which specialises in drama and the performing arts. Whilst the majority of Oberon's catalogue is made up of play texts, in recent years it has begun to publish theatrical biographies as well as books on ballet, opera, illustration, photography and...
.
Family
His interest in Isadora DuncanIsadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and only later in her life...
and Gordon Craig
Edward Gordon Craig
Edward Henry Gordon Craig , sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings...
was aroused by the fact that Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw (composer)
Martin Edward Fallas Shaw OBE, FRCM, DMus was an English composer, conductor and theatre producer...
was Craig's closest lifelong friend and the only artist ever to work with him successfully more than once. Martin Shaw also toured Europe twice as conductor for Duncan in 1906 and 1907, while she was intimately involved with Craig. His cousin is the actor Sebastian Shaw
Sebastian Shaw (actor)
Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, Shaw appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions....
.
Personal life
Robert Shaw and Ines San Segundo were married in 1995 and have a son, Vladimir, born in 1997.External links
- Inside Intelligence (official website)
- Gate TheatreGate TheatreThe Gate Theatre, in Dublin, was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál Mac Liammóir, initially using the Abbey Theatre's Peacock studio theatre space to stage important works by European and American dramatists...
. Tejas Verdes - Oberon Books