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Shakespeare Productions chronologically

Chronology of Shakespeare productions at the NT







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)