Theatre Craft: A Director's Practical Companion from A-Z
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Theatre Craft is an all-encompassing practical guide for anyone working in the theatre, from the enthusiastic amateur to the committed professional. With entries arranged alphabetically, Theatre Craft offers advice on all areas of directing, from Acting, Adaptation, and Accent to Sound Effects, Superstition, Trap Doors, and Wardrobe. Enlightening and entertaining by turns, the celebrated director John Caird, honorary associate director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, shares his profound knowledge and wealth of international experience to provide an invaluable companion for anyone creating any size of play, musical, or opera―from the back room of a bar to a full-scale production on Broadway. This is required reading for the modern theatre practitioner.
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John Newport Caird is an English stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas. He is an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, a regular director with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and the Principal Guest Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm (Dramaten).
Background
John Caird was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to English parents George Bradford Caird, Oxford theologian and principal of Mansfield College, Oxford and Viola Mary Newport, poet and librarian. He lived in Montreal. His family moved back to England in 1959 to Oxford.
Education
John attended Selwyn House School. His family moved back to England in 1959 to Oxford, where he attended Magdalen College School from 1959–1967. He studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1967 to 1969.
John started his caree as an associate director at Contact Theatre, Manchester, England and worked there from 1974 to 1976. Then he worked at Royal Shakespeare Company, London as a resident director since 1977 till 1982. In 1983 he was promoted to associate director and since 1990, he works there as a honorary associate director.
Director of plays for the Contact Theatre, including Look Back in Anger, Downright Hooligan, Twelfth Night. Director of plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Dance of Death, 1977; Savage Amusement, 1978; Look Out, Here Comes Trouble, 1978; Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1979; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1980, also produced in New York, 1982, and Los Angeles, 1986; Naked Robots, 1981; Twin Rivals, 1981; Our Friends in the North, 1982; Peter Pan, 1982-84; Twelfth Night, 1983; Romeo and Juliet, 1983; The Merchant of Venice, 1984; Red Star, 1984; Philistines, 1985; Every Man in His Humour, 1986; Misalliance, 1986; A Question of Geography, 1987; The New Inn, 1987; As You Like It, 1989; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1989; Columbus and the Discovery of Japan, 1992; and Antony and Cleopatra, 1992. Director of plays for the National Theatre, London, including Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, 1993; and The Seagull, 1994.
Also directed Stanley, Circle in the Square, New York City in 1996; Song and Dance (concert), Palace Theatre, London, 1982; As You Like It, Stockholm, 1984; Les Miserables, Palace Theatre, London, 1985, Broadway Theatre, New York City, 1987-90, then Imperial Theatre, New York City, beginning in 1990, also toured in numerous other cities, 1985-93; Zaide (opera), Battignano, Italy, 1991; Life Sentences, New York, 1993; The Millionairess, 1995; and “Les Miserables” in Concert (part of the Great Performances series) PBS, 1996.
John is also a creator and director of Intimate Letters, a series of concerts for actors and string quartet. He appeared in television special Les Miserables Stage by Stage, A & E, 1989.
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Membership
Caird is an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru) and has an Honorary D.Litt from the University of East Anglia. He is also a member of the Kenjin-Tatsujin Council of Ashinaga Ikuekai in Japan.
Interests
Music
Connections
Caird has been married four times and has four sons and four daughters. His first marriage was to Helen Brammer in Oxford in 1970. His second was to Ann Dorszynski (Annie Caird) in Finsbury, London in 1982. They have three children: Joanna, Benjamin and Samuel. His third was to Frances Ruffelle in 1990, in Westminster, London. They have two children: Eliza, who has become successful as a singer under the stage name Eliza Doolittle, and Nathaniel. His fourth was to Maoko Imai in Argiano, Italy in 1998. They have three children: Yoji, Miyako and Yayako.