William Dudley (designer) - Career

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 at the ) 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
  • 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
  • The Coast of Utopia: Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage, trilogy by Tom Stoppard (dir Trevor Nunn) National — August 2002
  • The Breath of Life by David Hare (dir Howard Davies) Theatre Royal Haymarket — October 2002
  • Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith (dir Roger Michell) National Cottesloe — 2003
  • Hitchcock Blonde (written and dir Terry Johnson) Royal Court and Lyric Theatre — 2003
  • The Permanent Way by David Hare (dir Max Stafford Clark) National Cottesloe — January 2004
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (dir Howard Davies) National Olivier — April 2004
  • Old Times by Harold Pinter (dir Roger Michell) Donmar Warehouse — July 2004
  • The Woman in White musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (dir Trevor Nunn) Palace Theatre — September 2004; New York — 2005
  • Titus Andronicus (dir Lucy Bailey) Shakespeare's Globe — 2006
  • The Beggar's Opera (dir Lucy Bailey) Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park — 2011

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