Director turned lines into life: Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall had an ear for language onstage
by By Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
Sep 14, 2017
3 minutes
Theater directors bear heavy responsibility for a production's failure yet enjoy only a meager portion of the glory that playwrights and actors receive when a show catches fire.
Auteurs rebel against this system, putting their distinctive stamp on work their productions in effect rewrite. But Peter Hall, who died Monday at 86, became a pillar of postwar British theater the old-fashioned way: He served the play.
To do this, he recognized every bit as much as his more radical contemporary Peter Brook that he had to clear the cobwebs of a tradition that still had
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