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RSC director David Jones dies

30 September 2008

David Jones, an actor and director with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), has died.

Prior to his death the 74 year-old had been suffering from emphysema.

He worked with the RSC from 1966 and was its artistic director when the company put on plays at the Aldwych Theatre in London during the 60s and 70s.

Mr Jones worked on numerous productions including work by Edward Albee, Marguerite Duras, David Mercer, Maxim Gorky, George Bernard Shaw and Peter Barnes.

He also directed the work of British playwright Harold Pinter, including a television version of the screenplay Langrishe, Go Down and a cinematic rendition of Betrayal.

British playwright Hugh Whitemore wrote in the Guardian: "His work reflected his very idiosyncratic tastes and enthusiasms. He excelled in the plays of Gorky and Granville Barker; in the work of his friends David Mercer, Richard Nelson and Harold Pinter."

He was also the artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre Company in New York after his stint with the RSC.

The RSC recently announced detailed plans for the next three years of its ensemble.
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