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British theatre designer
William Dudley
OBE
RDI (born 4 March 1947 in London, England) is a British theatre designer.
Early life
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
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
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 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
Lenny (dir
Peter Hall )
Queens Theatre - July 1999
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Amadeus (dir
Peter Hall ) Old Vic – October 1998; New York – 1999
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]
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]
Honours and awards
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.
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References
^ The Stage Thursday 24 April 2003, page 9
^ Maddy Costa (15 February 2011).
"Director Lucy Bailey: Thinking small" .
The Guardian .
^
National Life Stories, 'Dudley, William (1 of 13) An Oral History of Theatre Design', The British Library Board, 2008 . Retrieved 1 February 2018
^
"Lenny - UK Theatre Web" . Retrieved 31 March 2022 .
^ Fisher, Philip (2003).
"The York Realist, By Peter Gill, The Royal Court Theatre Downstairs – Review" . The British Theatre Guide . Retrieved 2 November 2011 .
^
"The Coast of Utopia: Voyage – Productions" . National Theatre. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^
"Theatre review: The Breath of Life at Theatre Royal Haymarket" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^
"Theatre review: Hitchcock Blonde at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
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"Theatre review: Cyrano de Bergerac at RNT Olivier" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
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"Theatre review: Old Times at Donmar Warehouse" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
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"Theatre review: The Woman in White at Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue" . Britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^
"The Woman in White, a CurtainUp review" . Curtainup.com. 19 November 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^ John Thaxter (8 June 2006).
"The Stage / Reviews / Titus Andronicus" . Thestage.co.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2012 .
^
"Fortune's Fool - The Old Vic" . www.oldvictheatre.com . Archived from
the original on 9 October 2013.
^
"No. 63218" .
The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2020. p. N11.
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