Shakespeare Productions chronologically
HAMLET
Director - Laurence Olivier
Old Vic 22 October 1963
OTHELLO
Director - John Dexter
Old Vic 21 April 1964
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
Director - Val May
Old Vic 7 September 1964
BRISTOL OLD VIC COMPANY
HENRY V
Director - Stuart Burge
Old Vic 11 September 1964
BRISTOL OLD VIC COMPANY
HAMLET
Director - Franco Zeffirelli
Old Vic 15 September 1964
PROCLEMER-ALBERTAZZI COMPANY
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Director - Franco Zeffirelli
Old Vic 16 February 1965
CORIOLANUS
/ Bertolt Brecht
Director - Manfred Wekwerth/Joachim Tenschert
Old Vic 10 August 1965
BERLINER ENSEMBLE
Anthony and Cleopatra
Director - Michael Croft
Old Vic 6 September 1965
NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
Director - Paul Hill
Old Vic 13 September 1965
NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE
AS YOU LIKE IT
Director - Clifford Williams
Old Vic 3 October 1967
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
Director - Laurence Olivier
Old Vic 19 December 1968
KING LEAR
Director - Jonathan Miller
Old Vic 10 February 1970
NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE COMPANY
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Director - Jonathan Miller
Old Vic 28 April 1970
CORIOLANUS
Director - Manfred Wekwerth & Joachim Tenschert
Old Vic 6 May 1971
RICHARD II
Director - David William
Old Vic 29 March 1972
MACBETH
Director - Michael Blakemore
Old Vic 9 November 1972
TWELFTH NIGHT
Director - Peter James
Old Vic 6 January (Mobile) 1973
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Director - Jonathan Miller
Old Vic 15 January (Mobile) 1974
THE TEMPEST
Director - Peter Hall
Old Vic 5 March 1974
ROMEO AND JULIET
Director - Bill Bryden
Old Vic 28 August 1974 (Mobile)
HAMLET
Director - Peter Hall
Old Vic 10 December 1975
JULIUS CAESAR
Director - John Schlesinger
Olivier 22 March 1977
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Director - Stuart Burge
Lyttelton 5 May 1977
BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY
MACBETH
Director - Peter Hall with John Russell Brown
Olivier 6 June 1978
AS YOU LIKE IT
Director - John Dexter
Olivier 1 August 1979
RICHARD III
Director - Christopher Morahan
Olivier 4 October 1979
OTHELLO
Director - Peter Hall
Olivier 20 March 1980
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Director - Michael Rudman
Lyttelton 14 April 1981
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Director - Peter Gill
Olivier 14 August 1981
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Director - Bill Bryden
Cottesloe 25 November 1982
MACBETH
Director - Michael Bogdanov with Justin Greene & Alan Cohen
Cottesloe 16 May (Mobile) 1983
CORIOLANUS
Director - Peter Hall
Olivier 15 December 1984
HAMLET
Director - Cicely Berry
Cottesloe 9 January (Mobile) 1986
KING LEAR
Director - David Hare
Olivier 11 December 1986
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Director - Peter Hall
Olivier 9 April 1987
HAMLET
Translation by Britt G Hallqvist
Director - Ingmar Bergman
Lyttelton 10 June 1987
ROYAL DRAMATIC THEATRE, STOCKHOLM
MACBETH
Translation by Yushi Odajima
Director - Yukio Ninagawa
Olivier 17 September 1987
NINAGAWA COMPANY, TOKYO
THE WINTER'S TALE
Director - Peter Hall
Cottesloe 18 May 1988
THE TEMPEST
Director - Peter Hall
Cottesloe 19 May 1988
CYMBELINE
Director - Peter Hall
Cottesloe 20 May 1988
HAMLET
Director - Richard Eyre
Olivier 16 March 1989
RICHARD III
Director - Richard Eyre
Lyttelton 25 July 1990
KING LEAR
Director - Deborah Warner
Lyttelton 26 July 1990
HAMLET
Translation by Nina Cassian
Director - Alexandru Tocilescu
Lyttelton 20 September 1990
BULANDRA THEATRE, ROMANIA
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Director - Robert Lepage
Olivier 9 July 1992
MACBETH
Director - Richard Eyre
Olivier 1 April 1993
PERICLES
Director - Phyllida Lloyd
Olivier 19 May 1994
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Director - Terry Hands
Olivier 26 January 1995
RICHARD II
Director - Deborah Warner
Cottesloe 2 June 1995
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Director - Gregory Doran
Cottesloe 18 July 1995
(Market Theatre Johannesburg
in association with the Studio)
ELSINORE
a solo work by Robert Lepage
based on Shakespeare's Hamlet
Lyttelton 4 January 1997
KING LEAR
Director - Richard Eyre
Cottesloe 27 March 1997
TWELFTH NIGHT
Director - Brigid Larmour
Cottesloe 16 May (Mobile) 1997
OTHELLO
Director - Sam Mendes
Cottesloe 18 September 1997
(co-production with Salzburg Festival)
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Director - Sean Mathias
Olivier 20 October 1998
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
Director - Trevor Nunn
Olivier 15 March 1999
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Director - Trevor Nunn
Cottesloe17 June 1999
Olivier 29.11.1999
AS YOU LIKE IT
Director - Sean Holmes
Cottesloe (Mobile) 09 May 2000
Lloyds TSB Live! in association with the Royal National Theatre
HAMLET
Director - John Caird
Lyttelton 5 Sep 2000
Olivier 11 Jun 2001
ROMEO AND JULIET
Director - Tim Supple
Olivier 3 Oct 2000
THE WINTER'S TALE
Director - Nicholas Hytner
Olivier 23 May 2001
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Director - Jonathan Petherbridge
Cottesloe 8 Apr 2002
(NT Education)
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
Director - Trevor Nunn
Olivier, 21 Feb 2003
PERICLES
Director - Yukio Ninagawa
Olivier, 31 March 2003
THE TEMPEST
Director - Mark Rosenblatt
Cottesloe, 19 March 2003
HENRY V
Director - Nicholas Hytner
Olivier, 13 May 2003
MEASURE FOR MESURE
Director – Simon McBurney
Olivier, 27 May 2004
A collaboration between the National Theatre and Complicite
HENRY IV – PART 1
By William Shakespeare
Dir: Nicholas Hytner
Oliver, 4 May 2005
HENRY IV – PART 2
By William Shakespeare
Dir: Nicholas Hytner
Olivier, 4 May 2005
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
By William Shakespeare
A co-production between the National Theatre and Complicite
Dir: Simon McBurney
Lyttelton, 15 February 2006 (Revival)





